Luigi Bartolini

Lo Scarabeo D Oro - Etching by Luigi Bartolini - 1936

1936

Image dimensions: 23 x 28.3 cm. Scarabeo Ercole is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist and engraver Luigi Bartolini in 1934.  Very rare etching on ivory paper.  Titled in blue pen by the artist on the lower left corner (Scarabeo Ercole); numbered in pencil on the lower central margin (7/50); hand-signed by the artist in blue pen on the lower right corner (Luigi Bartolini).  Edition of 50 prints.  Excellent conditions.  Other titles: Scarabei, Scarabei tropicali, Lo scarabeo Ercole, Scarabeo rinoceronte. The work is present in the National Graphic Institure (Gabinetto delle Stampe), Rome  Selected Bibliography: 1936 Marchiori, Luigi Bartolini - Hoepli 1940 dicembre, Luigi Bartolini. Presentazione delle mie acqueforti - Emporium Bergamo, N. 552 1951 Petrucci, Mostra Calcografia, n. 457 1952 L. Bartolini, Esemplari unici o rari, p. 112 1962 Ronci, Mostra Calcografia, n. 457, es. 30 1975 Roma, Mostra Gall. Don Chisciotte, n. 37 1992 Corrado Maltese, Storia dell’Arte in Italia - Einaudi 1997 Ficacci, Mostra Calcografia, n. 37 1998 Micieli, Mino Rosi e Luigi Bartolini n. 52 Selected Exhibitions: 1935 Roma, II Quadriennale d’Arte Nazionale 1949 Zurigo Kunstsalon Wolfsberg Romische Maler 1950 Parigi, Mostra Gall. Silvagni 1950 Lugano, Mostra Internazionale del Bianco e Nero (Premiato) 1951 Roma, Mostra Calcografia, n. 457 1956 Lucca, Mostra Gall. La Pantera...

Image dimensions: 24.7 x 32.8 cm. Valeria is a beautiful etching realized by the artist Luigi Bartolini realized in 1948. Original etching on china paper applied. Plate dimensions: mm 247 x 328. Edition of 50 prints. Hand-signed, titled and numbered on the lower margin: Valeria 7/50 Bartolini. Signed and dated on plate on the lower left corner: “Bartolini 48”. Titled on plate on the upper side: Valeria. In good conditions, yet with slight foxing. One of the specimen is now preserved at the Civica Raccolta Bertarelli in Castello Sforzesco in Milan. Luigi Bartolini Cupramontana (Ancona), 1892 – Rome 1963 An accomplished Twentieth Century Italian engraver, painter, writer, art critic and engraver. He spent his early years living in Rome, Siena, and Florence and was professionally formed through university courses in art and medicine, museums, and the Academy Belle Arti. He begins to study art in 1912 with a special preference for Goya, Rembrandt, and Fattori. His success as an engraver arrives in 1924 with his exhibitions at Bragaglia’s House of Art and Casa Palazzi di Roma (70 etchings). In 1925 he participates in the II Roman Biennial and then in the Venice Biennial from 1928 to 1936. He is considered, along with Morandi, the greatest Italian engraver. His expositive work continues with intensity in the post-war period with one-man exhibitions in both Italy and abroad. His last one-man exhibition takes place at the XXXI Venice Biennial and at the National Chalcography in Rome in 1962. Bartolini lives through his era in complete liberty, dedicating himself to painting, to art criticism, to literature and teaching. This intellectual and artistic autonomy is well reflected in his engravings and it is exactly because of this characteristic of intellectual autonomy that he has never really belonged to the Scuola Romana although he was very attached to it because he frequented the Roman environment and it’s artists who he would often exhibit with. His literary production is gathered the volumes Polemiche (1940), Credo d’artista (1945), Il Fallimento della Pittura (1948) and Poesie 1911-1963(1964). As a critic, he collaborates with numerous magazines such as “Il Selvaggio”, “Quadrivio”, “La Tribuna”, “L’Ambrosiano” etc. After the war, “Bicycle Thieves...

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