Luigi Bompard (1879 - 1953) - The dew, 1905
Most colors xylography, taken from "Novissimo. Annual art and letters", Rome 1905.
Signed in the slab.
Wonderful three -colored impression on gray paper.
In perfect condition, except for scotch residues on the verse.
Dimensions: 21.7 x 26.5 cm
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Luigi Bompard (Bologna, 8 September 1879 - Rome, February 24, 1953) was an Italian painter and illustrator.
Son of the French origin merchant Jules Bompard and the photographer Cesira Opppi, Luigi receives no formal artistic training [1].
The evolution of its illustrative technique has absolutely self -taught bases, which find body and substance starting from 1902 in the influences of the Bohemien artists belonging to the group of "Giambardi della Sega", who met in the Bentivoglio palace.
The Bolognese environment of the time, thanks to the large amount of magazines that were published there, was particularly suitable for the illustrator's activity, to which Bompard dedicated himself and in which he began his qualities as a graphic designer.
Among the most important collaborations, we remember those linked to the Christmas of La Lira and to Italy Ride where he came in contact with artists of different extraction and experience, such as Alfredo Baruffi, Franz Laskoff, Ugo Valeri, Augusto Majani. The activities in the billboard field, to which he dedicated himself in pairs with Marcello Dudovich.
Alongside the graphic and illustrator activity, which allowed him to meet his economic needs, Bompard had a significant presence in the pictorial scene of the time, as evidenced by the numerous participations in the France award (1901, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1907 and 1916), at the Venice Biennale (1905, 1912, 1920, 1926).
Moving to Rome in 1904, he participated in the refused exhibition (1905), and in that of the society of amateurs and lovers of fine arts (1906) and enters the Gria (Roman group incisors artists).
In the years following 1906 he lived first in Paris, and then in Milan, where he moved in 1911. Here he collaborated in Italian illustration and reading.
After 1918 he returned to Rome and carries out illustrator activities for magazines such as the labor of ideas, us and the world, the Sunday newspaper, the grandstand, the voice of Italy, the Corriere dei Piccoli, Marc'Aurelio, the Guerin Meschino.
He died in the capital in February 1953 at the age of 73.
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