Guglielmo Baldassini
(Genoa 1885 - Milan 1945)
Life in the port (N4) Genoa
Coloring in color
Flaw 495 x 635 mm; sheet 570 x 750
Painter and engraver. It is formed in Milan where in 1901 he enrolled in the Accademia di Brera, expelled after three years, abandoned his academic studies and studies by self -taught by dedicating himself to the landscape and the plays of light on it. Since 1914 he devoted himself to the incision with aquamentan, this new technique is particularly congenial to him and gives him notoriety. He exhibits in Milan, London, Rome, Venice, Brighton. The catalog has about three hundred slabs. He also dedicated himself to monotype and photography.
Animated view of water pile of boats in the port of Genoa. The author returns the effect of a ray of sunshine that induces the sails in the center of the composition and is reflected on the newly moved water. At the bottom right engraved monogram. In addition to the Pencil Image signature and autograph title: life in the port (N4) Genoa. The slab is part of a series of views of the port of Genoa performed in 1915. The N1 slab was exhibited at the Milan exhibition of 1982 and is reproduced on the graphic Risorgimento, year XII, N3, March 1915.
Excellent impression impressed with oil ink with thick paper. Large margins. Excellent condition.
Bibliography: Rossana Bossaglia (presentation of), Guglielmo Baldassini, an engraver in Milan between the two wars, catalog of the exhibition "La Milano di Baldassini" organized by the Municipality of Milan, Can Bianco, Pistoia, 1982.