1803187

Aldo Pagliacci Harlequin Lithograph SIGNED #'d #1803187

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Aldo Pagliacci Harlequin Lithograph SIGNED #'d #1803187
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***REASONABLE BEST-OFFERS CONSIDERED PRE-AUCTION OR DIRECT PURCHASE - ITEMS TO BE SOLD VIA GO ANTIQUES VENUE ONLY (PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST OFF-VENUE SALE)! Item & Subject-Matter: Vintage ca. Pre-1976 Aldo Pagliacci Pencil-Signed and Numbered #?d 210/275 Lithographic Clown-themed Print entitled ?Harlequin At Rest? with accompanying Certificate of Authenticity (COA)
***COA #AC- was issued February 8, 1976 by ?Renaissance Fine Arts? of University Heights, Ohio
Artist: Aldo Pagliacci (1913-1991); Italian (Italy) Artist
***EXCERPTED RESEARCH INFO: ?...Precocious Pagliacci exhibited paintings in the Venice Biennale at 16. His career was interrupted in 1935, when he was called up for army service and sent off to Eritrea. During World War II he served as a magazine correspondent but was captured by the British in 1941. While sweating out the weary months in a Rhodesian internment camp he was assigned to decorate the camp church's interior. He did the job in tempera, and claims that he completed a normal two years' work in four months, egged on by two Franciscan friars who kept him well fueled with cognac and whisky. (Pagliacci, a two-fisted drinker, says he does his best painting when slightly tiddly.) Since his first postwar show in 1949, Pagliacci's work has climbed steadily on the bestseller lists. His paintings, marked by skilled draftsmanship and dramatic coloring, have had a particular vogue with U.S. collectors, among them Nelson Rockefeller and Cinemactor Clifton ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:ca pre-1976</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Aldo Pagliacci Harlequin Lithograph SIGNED #'d</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Glendale, Arizona</td></tr>
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