Straccio e cartoccio etching by Gianfranco Ferroni, 1970s

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Etching dimensions: mm 127 x 100; sheet mm 448 x 352 Italian painter and engraver born in Livorno but spent his adolescence in the Marche region, in Ancona, where he attended the scientific high school. Due to the war with his whole family he moved to Milan and here in 1946 he started attending the Brera Academy of Fine Arts despite opposition and criticism from his family. From the mid-1950s, he became associated with the painters of Existential Realism and painting was always seen as an autobiographical medium, a way of delving deep into life, the essence and the everyday. He produced several drawings and engravings, many of them anticipating pictorial solutions. Through the graphic sign he develops a violent realism translated into urban landscapes, but also interior scenes. In the engravings, the stroke becomes dense, the objects emerge directly from the dark background created with a continuous intersection of lines and the instrumental use of light. The print run is 115 examples of which 100 are numbered and signed, 12 with Roman numerals and 3 p.d.A. Exemplar numbered, signed and dated in pencil at the bottom: 55/100, Ferroni '79. Excellent impression. Excellent state of preservation, wide margins. Bibliography: Ceribelli-Marcoaldi, Gianfranco Ferroni, l'opera incisa, Bergamo, Lubrina 2002: n 173. Ill p 186

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