1590859

Marino Marini 1955 Framed Lithograph Horseman #1590859

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Marino Marini 1955 Framed Lithograph Horseman  #1590859
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Artist: Marino Marini

Title: Chevalier

Year: 1955

Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate

Size: 26 x 20 inches

Frame: 33 x 28 inches





Marino Marini (1901-1980) Italian




Marino Marini was born in Pistoia in 1901. In 1917 he enrolled in the Florence Accademia di Belle Arti where he followed courses in painting taught by Galileo Chini and sculpture by Domenico Trentacoste. These early years of artistic activity in Via degli Artisti were mainly devoted to painting and drawing. Marini's first important sculpture, Popolo (in terracotta), was produced in 1929, the same year in which he was invited by Arturo Martini to move to Milan and teach at Villa Reale in Monza. This was also the year in which he exhibited in Nice with the Novecento group and undertook his first trip to Paris. His first solo exhibition was in Milan in 1932 and in 1935 he won first prize at theRome Quadriennale.



In 1938 he married Mercedes Pedrazzini (affectionately nicknamed Marina) who was to be a constant and explicit presence in his artistic personality.



Marini leftVilla Reale in 1940 for the chair of sculpture at the Brera Academy which he held until 1943 when the war (which had led to the destruction of his studio) caused him to retreat to the Swiss Canton of Ticino which was the birthplace of his wife. This time was rich in contacts with both old and new friends from Paris such as Wotruba, Germaine ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Very Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1955</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:26</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:20</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Marino Marini 1955 Framed Lithograph Horseman </td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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