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Luigi Bartolini, Ceduo Forest, etching, 1940s
SILVER Seller in Milano, Italy
SILVER Seller in Milano, Italy
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Luigi Bartolini (Cupramontana 1892 - Rome 1963) Ceded Wood. Etching dimensions: mm 220 x 175; sheet mm 496 x 352 Italian painter, writer, scriptwriter and engraver. After his technical studies in Jesi, he moved to Siena in 1907, where he enrolled at the Institute of Fine Arts. In 1909, we find him in Rome, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts and classes in anatomy, art history and literature at the University. At the Academy of Spain, in San Pietro in Montorio, he attended drawing courses and studied Goya's engravings. Between 1913 and 1914, he was in Florence, where he attended architecture and anatomy classes and the nude school attached to the Academy; he was impressed by Giovanni Fattori's engravings and, at the Uffizi, he studied the collections of antique drawings and etchings by Rembrandt and Callot. With Bartolini, engraving once again became a means of poetic expression, free from the symbolism and Vedutism then in vogue at the academies. The artist, strengthened by his indomitable freedom of expression and despite being unconventional, is today considered one of the most important contemporary engravers of the 20th century. In his etchings, sometimes a light hatching prevails (blond genre), sometimes a Rembrandt-like search for chiaroscuro (black genre). In the sheet, the woodland landscape is the protagonist. Everything is constructed by means of a nervous and rapid stroke: the loose soil, the shrubs and bushes that grow without leaving any uncultivated space, the winding trunks that grow upwards. Only the area in the foreground, where the signature is engraved, is built up by a broader, undulating and softer mark. Dense chiaroscuro contrasts offer an almost impenetrable piece of nature. Compared to the specimen published on Luigi Bartolini's website, this is a similar plate, but with obvious differences in both the signature - which does not bear the date 1941 - and the engraved sign. Four versions of this subject are known. The first engraved in 1914 or 1915 is published in Emporium in 1940. The second is engraved in the 1940s and bears the signature with the date 1941 reproduced at www.luigibartolini.com . The third plate evidently different in sign and without the date after the signature is like the specimen proposed here, datable according to Porzio to 1943. Finally, a fourth version, which has recently appeared on the market, seems to rework the 1943 version, accentuating the chiaroscuro effect. It should also be noted that the present specimen, as well as those in the second and fourth versions, bear the embossed stamp of the Società per le belle Arti ed Esposizione Permanente di Milano and the embossed stamp 'Luigi Bartolini incisore all'acquaforte' at the bottom centre. Excellent impression, with intense blacks, printed on thick paper with white backing. Excellent state of preservation. Signature in pencil lower right Luigi Bartolini.
ID: 11318-1657031128-42266
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