Woman Lying - Vintage Offset Print after Renato Guttuso - Late 20th Century

Late 20th Century

Nudity 2 is an offset print realized after the Sicilian artist Renato Guttuso, 1980s. Good conditions. Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, Palermo 1912 - Rome,1987) was a famous Italian pai...

Allegories: The Sleep of Reason is a vintage offset poster realized by the Italian artist Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987) in 1981. Original Colored Offset on paper. The artwork was realized on the occasion of the exhibition realized in 1981 at Galleria Rondanini in Rome. The offset poster depicts the artwork Allegories: The Sleep of Reason realized by the artist in 1979 Printed on the lower left corner: Allegories: The Sleep of Reason Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987). His father Gioacchino, a land-surveyor and amateur watercolourist, and his mother Giuseppina d’Amico, due to disagreements with their own town depending on their liberal ideas, registered the birth on 2 January 1912 in Palermo. In his birthplace Guttuso discovered painting at a very early age; as he himself wrote: “… among my father’s watercolours, the studio of the painter Domenico Quattrociocchi and the workshop of the cart painter Emilio Murdolo my path was taking shape when I was six, seven, ten years old…”.Guttuso was awarded the Lenin Prize at the time of his exhibition at the Art Academy in Moscow, 1972. The same year a large retrospective toured Eastern Europe calling at Praha, Bucarest, Bratislava and Budapest. Two major paintings belong to this period: La Vucciria (1974), later presented by the artist to the University of Palermo, and Caffe Greco...

Renato Guttuso, Italian (1911 - 1987) - Nude Woman, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 200, Image Size: 18 x 21 inches, Size: 20 x 28 ...

Jean-Baptiste VALADIE Reclining nude Original etching and aquatint Handsigned in pencil Limited /199 copies On vellum 50 x 65 cm (c. 20 x 26 in) Excellent condition