Great 1961 Massimo Campigli Original Pencil Signed Modernist Lithograph

Description: Entitled "Two Figures" this1961 lithograph is by the celebrated Italian Modernist painter and printmaker Massimo Campigli (1895-1971) famous for his imagery influenced by the forms of ancient Etruscan art. Measuring 20 1/2" x 15 1/2" image, 37" x 25" framed it is signed in pencil lower right, numbered 195 / 210 lower left, f It is in excellent condition with no holes, tears, stains, toning, or fading and handsomely framed in archival materials This is one of artist's most highly regarded prints . Works by this artist can be found in the collections of many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Art Istitute of Chicago; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; British Museum, London; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; Musee D'Art National Moderne Center Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia; Vatican Museums, Bellos Artes, Bilbao; Spain, etc I will gladly remove from frame and ship in tube if desired Massimo Campigli was born in Berlin on July 4, 1895. In 1909 he moved to Milan, where he came into contact with the Futurist painters. After military service, Campigli moved to Paris in 1919. In Paris where he worked for nine years as a journalist for Corriere della Sera, and began to paint. His first one-man show took place in 1923 at the Galleria Bragaglia in Rome. He was initially drawn to Purism, Léger, the neoclassicizing works of Picasso and Metaphysical painting. He was profoundly affected by ancient art in 1928, when he saw the Etruscan collection at the Villa Giulia in Rome. His love of archaism and of hieratic and abstract form led him to find sources in Cretan, Pompeian and Coptic as well as Etruscan art. Campigli’s interest in ancient art may have been encouraged by his affiliation with Sette italiani di Parigi, the group be formed with de Chirico, Severini and others in 1929. This same year his works were exhibited in his first solo show in Paris, at the Galerie Jeanne Bucher. During the thirties Campigli settled once more in Milan, where in 1933, with de Chirico, Achille Funi and Mario Sironi he executed murals, now destroyed, at the Palazzo dell’Arte: this was the first of his several mural projects. He showed in 1931, 1935 and 1939 at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, a city he traveled to in 1935 and 1939. After a period of renewed residence in Paris, Campigli returned again to Italy, spending the war years in Venice and Milan. His first one-man exhibition in a museum was held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1946 and he participated in the Venice Biennale in 1948, 1958, 1960 and 1962. Campigli illustrated numerous books, including Marco Polo’s Il Milione, 1942, and André Gide’s Thesée, 1948 , and wrote several texts of an autobiographical-critical nature. After 1949 Campigli divided his time among Paris, Milano, Rome and St. Tropez. Among his many one-man shows were presentations at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, and the Kunsthalle, Bern, in 1955, and the Palazzo Reale, Milan, in 1967.

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