Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni

Elder Graduated Man - Original Etching by R. Tommasi Ferroni - 1950/60s

1950/60s

Portrait of Ardengo Soffici is an Etching realized by Mino Maccari in the Mid-20th Century. Handi signed in the lower right part. Numbered. Edition 4/100. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an Italian writer, painter, engraver and journalist, winner of the Feltrinelli Prize for Painting in 1963 and first winner of the Forte dei Marmi Satira Prize in 1973.After completing his secondary education, he enrolls in university. An interventionist like many young people of his time, he took part in the Great War at the age of nineteen as a field artillery officer. At the end of the conflict he resumed his university studies in Siena and in 1920 he graduated in law. In 1924 he was called by Angiolo Bencini to take care of the printing of the magazine Il Selvaggio, openly uncompromising fascist, revolutionary and anti-bourgeois, where his first engravings were published. After a few years of coexistence between work at the newspaper and the law firm, at the beginning of 1926 he left the legal profession to take over the direction of Il Selvaggio which he would hold until 1942. In 1928 he was the author of the small book published by Vallecchi (Florence), Il Trastullo di Strapaese (little songs and engraved woodwinds) which collected fascist songs (the same book was seized several times from Antonio Gramsci during his detention). With the transfer of the editorial staff of the Selvaggio in 1925 from Colle di Val d'Elsa to Florence, Maccari collaborated with Ardengo Soffici, Ottone Rosai and Achille Lega. In the meantime, between 1927 and 1930, he made himself known to the general public as a painter by participating in various national exhibitions. Also in 1930 Maccari works in Turin at La Stampa as editor-in-chief and has the writer Curzio Malaparte as director. His presence in the cultural and editorial world of the fascist regime is very intense, he writes and collaborates with various magazines: Quadrivio, L'Italia Letteraria, L'Italiano and Omnibus by Leo Longanesi; then, during the war, in il Primato di Bottai and, subsequently again, in Il Mondo di Pannunzio (from the first number, in 1949), up to Documento by Federigo Valli. His graphic production is also vast, ranging from the Album of Vallecchi (1925), Il trastullo di Strapaese (1928) to Linoleum (1931). Maccari illustrated in 1934 La vecchia del Bal Bullier by Antonio Baldini and in 1942 he published the Album folder, followed by Come quando fuori Piove and Il superfluo illustrata.For his pictorial work full of evident chromatic accentuations and fast brushstrokes, the violent drawing combined with the lively stroke of the graphic sign of his engravings, he is recognized by critics as a complete artist. In 1962 he was also entrusted with the presidency of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome and managed to obtain a personal exhibition at Gallery 63 in New York. His production of drawings, watercolors, temperas, etc. is endless, sometimes in collaboration with prestigious publishing houses; it is worth mentioning, just as an excellent example, the 32 b/w and color drawings with which he illustrated Il gusto di vivere, a volume that collects writings by Giancarlo Fusco, edited by Natalia Aspesi and published by Laterza in 1985. Maccari, Sienese and great contradaiolo della Torre, painted the Palio...

Image dimensions: 17.5 x 23.7 cm. Redemption is a splendid etching and drypointr ealized by the Italian artist Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni (1934-2000). Hand-signedin pencil on the low...

Old Man is an original etching artwork on paper realized by Henri Piere Jamet (1858-1921). The state of preservation is very good and aged with small tearing on the margins. Sheet ...

Portrait is an etching realized by the Italian artist Walter Piacesi in 1973 This etching represents a portrait through confident strokes. Hand-signed Numbered. Edition, III/XX ...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed by A. Salmon and published in Paris by L'Art ca. 1880. Size: 11 x 8 3/8 inches (image) -- 280 x 212 mm. Signed in ...

Medium: etching. Catalogue reference: Bellini 52 iii/iii. This etching is one of the Three Plates from Large Studies of Heads executed by Castiglione, and this impression was printed...

Maurizio Bini, 1960s Etching on paper Number II/X The work is signed by the artist and individually numbered (pencil) Work dimensions 72/52 The work is framed Maurizio Bini was born...

Medium: original etching. Printed in 1919 and published in Berlin by Paul Cassirer. Plate size: 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (165 x 110 mm). Not signed.