Roberto Crippa Prints and Multiples
Italian, 1921-1972
The painter-sculptor Roberto Crippa was born in Milan in 1921. He studied at the Brera Art Academy in Milan where he was the fellow student of Aldo Carpi, Achille Funi and Carlo Carrá.
At the beginning of his career, like lots of young painters of his generation, Roberto Crippa was influenced by neo-Cubism. His first solo exhibition was at the Bergamini Gallery in Milan in 1947.
The artist was one of the first in Italy to practice gestural painting, which can be seen in his sharply colored spiral webs (ca. 1948–52). In 1948, Crippa became one of the founding members of the Spacialist group, a group founded around Lucio Fontana, whose objective was to search for a new spatial representation by technical means that was resolutely modern. At the same time, Crippa began to participate regularly in group exhibitions and, notably, the Biennale of Venice.
Later he devoted himself to what the artist called "Collages," cut-out forms that animate static surfaces. Crippa played with the effects of matter on rough, thick surfaces such as wood or bark as well as with plant elements on smooth, shiny metal or on transparent elements. His research naturally led him toward sculpture and from 1956 onward he constructed numerous cut-out, welded metal works of insects and monsters that are in line with the work of Lynn Chadwick. Crippa was interested in movement in space.
In parallel with his painting and sculpture, Roberto Crippa also experimented with graphic work (engravings, lithographs and illustrated books). During the mid-1960s, he moved toward monochrome reliefs, which he most often painted in tones of gray.
The artist died in a plane crash in 1972 in Bresso. He was 50 years old.
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Artist: Roberto Crippa
Plate I from Suns/Landscapes - Etching by R. Crippa - 1971/72
By Roberto Crippa
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 32 x 24 cm.
Plate I from Suns/Landscapes is an original artwork realized beetween 1971 and 1972 by Roberto Crippa.
Mixed oclored etching.
Signed on plate on the lower margin. Numbere on the lower left. Edition 23/100.
The artwork is from the portfolio Sun/Landscape, edited by Graphis Arte Livorno.
Colorful and power artwork with a mixed composition of geometrical shapes and with different contrasting colors.
Gaetano Crippa known as Roberto Crippa (Monza, 1921 - Bresso, 1972) was an Italian painter, sculptor and aviator. He started painting in 1945, with a figurative style and cubist influence close to Picasso's style. He joined the spatial movement with Lucio Fontana, Gian Carozzi...
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1970s Abstract Roberto Crippa Prints and Multiples
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Plate III from Suns/Landscapes - Etching by R. Crippa - 1971/72
By Roberto Crippa
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24 x 32 cm.
Plate III from Suns/Landscapes is an original artwork realized beetween 1971 and 1972 by Roberto Crippa.
Mixed oclored etching.
Signed on plate on the lower margin. Numbere on the lower left. Edition 23/100.
The artwork is from the portfolio Sun/Landscape, edited by Graphis Arte Livorno.
Colorful and power artwork with a mixed composition of geometrical shapes and with different contrasting colors.
Gaetano Crippa known as Roberto Crippa (Monza, 1921 - Bresso, 1972) was an Italian painter, sculptor and aviator. He started painting in 1945, with a figurative style and cubist influence close to Picasso's style. He joined the spatial movement with Lucio Fontana, Gian Carozzi...
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1970s Abstract Roberto Crippa Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Plate VI from Suns/Landscapes -Etching by R. Crippa - 1971/72
By Roberto Crippa
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24 x 32 cm.
Plate VI from Suns/Landscapes is an original artwork realized beetween 1971 and 1972 by Roberto Crippa.
Mixed oclored etching.
Signed on plate on the lower margin. Numbered on the lower left. Edition 23/100.
The artwork is from the portfolio Sun/Landscape, edited by Graphis Arte Livorno.
Colorful and power artwork with a mixed composition of geometrical shapes and with different contrasting colors.
Gaetano Crippa known as Roberto Crippa (Monza, 1921 - Bresso, 1972) was an Italian painter, sculptor and aviator. He started painting in 1945, with a figurative style and cubist influence close to Picasso's style. He joined the spatial movement with Lucio Fontana, Gian Carozzi...
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1970s Abstract Roberto Crippa Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Plate II from Suns/Landscapes - Etching by R. Crippa - 1971/72
By Roberto Crippa
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24 x 32 cm.
Plate II from Suns/Landscapes is an original artwork realized beetween 1971 and 1972 by Roberto Crippa.
Mixed oclored etching.
Signed on plate on the lower margin. Numbere on the lower left. Edition 23/100.
The artwork is from the portfolio Sun/Landscape, edited by Graphis Arte Livorno.
Colorful and power artwork with a mixed composition of geometrical shapes and with different contrasting colors.
Gaetano Crippa known as Roberto Crippa (Monza, 1921 - Bresso, 1972) was an Italian painter, sculptor and aviator. He started painting in 1945, with a figurative style and cubist influence close to Picasso's style. He joined the spatial movement with Lucio Fontana, Gian Carozzi...
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1970s Abstract Roberto Crippa Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Plate IV from Suns/Landscapes - Etching by R. Crippa - 1971/72
By Roberto Crippa
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24 x 32 cm.
Plate IV from Suns/Landscapes is an original artwork realized beetween 1971 and 1972 by Roberto Crippa.
Mixed oclored etching.
Signed on plate on the lower margin. Numbere on the lower left. Edition 23/100.
The artwork is from the portfolio Sun/Landscape, edited by Graphis Arte Livorno.
Colorful and power artwork with a mixed composition of geometrical shapes and with different contrasting colors.
Gaetano Crippa known as Roberto Crippa (Monza, 1921 - Bresso, 1972) was an Italian painter, sculptor and aviator. He started painting in 1945, with a figurative style and cubist influence close to Picasso's style. He joined the spatial movement with Lucio Fontana, Gian Carozzi...
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1970s Abstract Roberto Crippa Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Plate V from Suns/Landscapes - Etching by R. Crippa - 1971/72
By Roberto Crippa
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24 x 32 cm.
Plate V from Suns/Landscapes is an original artwork realized beetween 1971 and 1972 by Roberto Crippa.
Mixed oclored etching.
Signed on plate on the lower margin. Numbere on the lower left. Edition 23/100.
The artwork is from the portfolio Sun/Landscape, edited by Graphis Arte Livorno.
Colorful and power artwork with a mixed composition of geometrical shapes and with different contrasting colors.
Gaetano Crippa known as Roberto Crippa (Monza, 1921 - Bresso, 1972) was an Italian painter, sculptor and aviator. He started painting in 1945, with a figurative style and cubist influence close to Picasso's style. He joined the spatial movement with Lucio Fontana, Gian Carozzi...
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1970s Abstract Roberto Crippa Prints and Multiples
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