Popular painter, engraver and journalist Mino Maccari is known for his often controversial and explosive prints, drawings and paintings, and is considered to be one of the most important Italian satirical artists of the 20th century.
Born in 1898 in Siena, Maccari joined the Italian Army at age 19 to serve in World War I as an artillery officer. Afterward, he attended law school, graduating in 1920 and working as a lawyer until 1926.
While working as a lawyer, Maccari developed an interest in painting and engraving, moonlighting as an artist. Despite his lack of formal training, his works captured the attention of local critics, and he debuted with the Group Labronico, an organization of like-minded Italian artists that included painter Beppe Guzzi.
In 1924, publisher Angiolo Bencini contacted Maccari to oversee the printing operations of Il Selvaggio, a fascist magazine in which Maccari’s first satirical illustrations and engravings appeared. Until 1942, Maccari was editor-in-chief of the controversial magazine, which featured contributions from Futurist artists such as Ardengo Soffici, Carlo Carrà and others.
Throughout his career, Maccari participated in numerous notable exhibitions and shows throughout Italy and Europe. His figurative drawings and paintings, portraits and exotic nude works gained considerable acclaim from critics and collaborative artists.
In 1927, he participated in the "Second International Exhibition of Modern Engraving" and the "Third Exhibition of the Tuscan Union of Arts." The following year, Maccari exhibited at the Venice Biennale, where he would win the International Prize for engraving in 1948.
From the late 1940s to 1963, Maccari collaborated with the liberal magazine Il Mondo, contributing several satirical illustrations and engravings. By this time, he had become a well-established and respected artist in Italy and, in 1959, was named director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
In 1963, Maccari was recognized again for his works, winning the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize for painting. That same year, he became president of the San Luca Academy.
Throughout the 1970s, Maccari continued painting and drawing, creating provocative works such as Dominatrix Woman, a bold work in watercolor and pastel, the diminutive pen drawing Trampled and his erotic charcoal and watercolor drawing Mata Hari.
Even after Maccari’s death in 1989, his works continue to be a talking point among avid modern art collectors.
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1960s Italian Signed Dated and Autenticated Painting
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
1960s Italian Signed Dated and Autenticated Painting Mino Maccari work Three stylized figures Work by the Sienese artist Mino Maccari, signed at the bottom right Maccari 1969. Mixed ...
Paper, Watercolor
Two Female Portraits - Tempera by Mino Maccari - 1920s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
To Female Portraits is an original modern artwork realized in the early 20th Century by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original painting. Tempera on pap...
Tempera
The Soldier - Original Tempera by M. Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Soldier is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the 1950s. Mixed colored tempera on cardboard. Includes a contemporary gilded wooden frame: 54.5 x 3.5 x 31 Mino Mac...
Tempera
20th century Tuscan expressionist oil on canvas painting
By Mino Maccari
Located in Florence, IT
The painting (oil on canvas, 40 x 29.8 cm; with wooden frame 61 x 51 cm) depicts two figures, a woman with a smiling gaze and a man with a mustache, of which only the head is visible...
Canvas, Oil
Dipinto post impressionista figurativo toscano del XX secolo
By Mino Maccari
Located in Florence, IT
il dipinto (olio su tela 44.5 x 35 cm; with cornice in legno 64 x 54,5) è firmato "Maccari" in basso a sinistra e titolato "L'insidia" e datato 1956 a penna sul retro. La scena raffi...
Canvas, Oil
$3,500
H 16 in W 12 in D 1 in
Lovely Music, Original Painting on Canvas, Hand Signed, 16 x 12 in. Stretched
By Stephen Shortridge
Located in Aventura, FL
Original oil on canvas painting. Hand signed on front; signed and titled on verso by the artist. Canvas is stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity ...
Canvas, Oil
$43,200Sale Price|20% Off
H 31.75 in W 25.5 in
Au Bal Masque - Spanish girl at Opera
By Dietz Edzard
Located in Miami, FL
Au Bal Masque - Spanish girl at Opera - This spectacularly beautiful post-impressionist portrait t could be reminiscent of Degas. A charming girl with a ...
Canvas, Oil
$800
H 25.6 in W 19.69 in D 0.04 in
Contemporary abstract figurative woman's portrait on paper "A moment to dream"
By Mougenot Natalya
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Contemporary expressive female portrait inspired by Matisse, bold Fauvist color modern art painting celebrating feminine strength, authenticity, and inner transformation. "A Moment ...
Paper, Acrylic
$628
H 23.39 in W 16.54 in D 0.04 in
"Quiet mind" Contemporary abstract expressionist woman's portrait painting
By Mougenot Natalya
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
“Quiet Mind” is an original contemporary portrait of a woman by Natalya Mougenot, created with acrylic paints and acrylic pens on heavyweight professional acid-free paper. The work i...
Paper, Acrylic
$680Sale Price|20% Off
H 20 in W 24 in D 0.1 in
Chicano Abstract Expressionist Portrait -- The Red Headed Woman, Signed
By Ricardo de Silva
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist Portrait -- The Red Headed Woman by Chicano Artist Ricardo de Silva This striking abstract expressionist portrait is by Latino artist Ricardo (Richard) de Sil...
Charcoal, Acrylic, Gouache, Rice Paper
$285
H 11.7 in W 8.27 in D 0.04 in
Contemporary figurative portrait of a faceless woman "Freedom of Choice"
By Natalya Mougenot
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This painting features a faceless portrait of a woman wearing a head green covering and pink dangle earrings. I wanted to explore the theme “Freedom of Choice”: I believe every woman has the right to decide what she wants to wear. Some women cover their heads for their own religious or spiritual reasons assuming that the crown of the head...
Acrylic, Paper, Watercolor
$914Sale Price|33% Off
H 28.75 in W 23.63 in
French Fauvist Portrait of Woman in White Dress Catalan Modernist Oil Painting
By Ignasi Mundó
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Fauvist Portrait of Elegant Woman in White Dress Spanish Modernist Oil Artist: Ignasi Mundó Marcet (1918-2012) Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 73 × 60 cm (28.7 × 23.6 in) Frame: 7...
Canvas, Oil
$2,186
H 22 in W 18 in
1940's French Portrait of Young Man Original Signed Oil on Canvas Period Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man by Roger Allain (French 1920-1992) signed and dated 1941 (a very rare period due to WW2) oil on canvas canvas: 22 x 18 inches provenance...
Oil, Canvas
Good Times I -- Couple Nude Figurative
By Weyman Lew
Located in Soquel, CA
Weyman Michael Lew is a painter and printmaker, born in San Francisco, California in 1935. Without over-mat, silver tone aluminum frame and plexi-glass. Imaqe, 22"H x 27"L. He studied at the University of California, and the San Francisco Art Institute from 1965 to 1966 with Artist Mary Joan Jay DeFeo. His works are in the collection of De Young Memorial Museum; the Institution of Arte Contemporary in Lima, Peru; the Western American Artists...
Acrylic, Etching
$36,571
H 31.89 in W 25.6 in
"Jeune femme aux fleurs" 20th Century oil on canvas by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Madrid, ES
JEAN GABRIEL DOMERGUE French, 1889 – 1962 "JEUNE FEMME AUX FLEURS" Signed & dated "Jean-Gabriel Domergue ´28 " (lower right) With the Atelier stamp on the stretcher and canvas on the reverse Oil on canvas 32 X 25-3/4 inches (81 x 65 cm.) framed: 39-1/2 X 33-1/4 inches (100 X 84 cm.) PROVENANCE Private Collection, Madrid Note: We are grateful to Mr. Noé Willer for confirming the authenticity of this work which is recorded in the archives of the Artist. Painter born in Bordeaux, in 1889 and died in Paris in 1962. He began painting his mother's portraits very soon. He studied at the National Superior School of Fine Arts. The artist considered his teacher and inspiring Degas. Between 1904 and 1907 he joined Fauvism. In 1905 he participated in the "Autumn Hall" and in the "Hall of Independents". In 1907 he presented his 1st individual exhibition at the Vollard Gallery. He specialized in female portraits of Parisian ladies, creating a unique, sophisticated and elegant female portrait prototype that characterized him forever. He played an essential role in the evolution of women's fashion of his time. He designed numerous dresses, hats and accessories for famous designers such as Paul Poiret and Henry Marque It goes down in history as the architect of a new type of woman, thin, with an elegant air, always with style, with unusual elongated necks, with impressive slanted eyes, that seem to look at the world in amazement, perhaps because they express a feeling of freedom towards Society and its norms. With these paintings of women, he showed the world the true French, elegant, beautiful and with a gooseneck. In 1914 he won the Rome Prize. Many celebrities of the time posed for the artist, Josephine Baker, Brigitte Bardot, etc. But although he painted numerous nude actresses...
Canvas, Oil
L'Atelier Mourlot by Fernand Leger
By (after) Fernand Léger
Located in New York, NY
This colorful lithographic poster was printed in 1982 at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris was printed for an exhibition of Atelier Mourlot prints in Tokyo at Seibu Department Stores, 198...
Lithograph
$7,500
H 22.5 in W 18.25 in D 0.75 in
'Study of a Man', Paris, Flâneur, Boulevardier, Danish Post-Impressionist Oil
By Axel Bentzen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed upper right 'A.B.' for Axel Bentzen (Danish, 1893-1952) painted circa 1925. Axel Bentzen studied art as a child and, by the age of 14, was copying Old Master paintings at ...
Canvas, Oil
$5,314
H 63 in W 63 in
The Road by Valérie de Sarrieu - Oil on canvas painting, landscape
By Valérie de Sarrieu
Located in Paris, FR
The Road is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Valérie de Sarrieu, dimensions are 160 × 160 cm (63 × 63 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes with a...
Canvas, Paper, Oil, Tempera
Singing and Printing XIII
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
JIM DINE Singing and Printing XIII. Unique color woodblock relief print with hand coloring in oil, acrylic, and charcoal and mechanical abrasion on cream wove paper, 2001. 69 3/4 x ...
Charcoal, Oil, Acrylic, Color, Woodcut
$800
H 25.6 in W 19.69 in D 0.04 in
Modern abstract figurative woman's portrait acrylic painting "Between times"
By Mougenot Natalya
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Contemporary expressive female portrait inspired by Matisse, bold Fauvist color modern art painting celebrating feminine strength, authenticity, and inner transformation “Between Ti...
Paper, Acrylic
Feminine Figures
By Mino Maccari
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Signed in lower left hand corner. Mino Maccari's artistic production is mainly aimed at social and political satire, expressed mainly through drawing; moreover, he ne...
Oil
Faces
By Mino Maccari
Located in London, GB
'Faces', oil on canvas, by Mino Maccari (circa 1970s). Without a narrative from the artist regarding this artwork, I'm tempted to speculate his inspiration may have been David Bowie'...
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 5.91 in W 4.14 in D 0.04 in
Couple in Love - Tempera by Mino Maccari - 1970s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Couple in Love is an original modern artwork realized in 1970s by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original tempera on cardb...
Tempera, Cardboard
Sold
H 17.33 in W 13.39 in
Signed M Maccari Post Impressionist Painting dated 1958 oil canvas cardboard
By Mino Maccari
Located in Florence, IT
The painting (oil on canvas applied on cardboard, 30 x 19,5 cm; with wood frame 44 x 34 cm) represents a spanish lady. It's signed Maccari on the bottom left, and it's dated 1958 and...
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Sold
H 5.63 in W 5.63 in D 0.08 in
The Telephone - Original Tempera on Cardboard by M. Maccari - 1975
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The telephone is a tempera on ivory colored and watermarked cardboard (Raffaello C.M. Fabriano) realized in 1975 by the Italian artist Mino Maccari. Hand-signed in pencil on lower-ri...
Watercolor