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Marino MARINI
Title: "Composizione"
*Signed LR
Circa: 1950
Medium: Original Lithograph
Limited edition: 73/200
Sheet size: 29.25" x 20.75"
Image size: 25.25" x 17"
Reference: Guastalla L53
Price: SOLD
Marino Marini (27 February 1901 – 6 August 1980) was an Italian sculptor. He attended the Accademia di
Belle Arti in Florence in 1917. Although he never abandoned painting, Marini devoted himself primarily
to sculpture from about 1922. From this time his work was influenced by Etruscan art and the sculpture
of Arturo Martini. Marini succeeded Martini as professor at the Scuola d’Arte di Villa Reale in Monza, near
Milan, in 1929, a position he retained until 1940.
During this period, Marini traveled frequently to Paris, where he associated with Massimo Campigli,
Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Magnelli, and Filippo Tibertelli de Pisis. In 1936 he moved to Tenero-Locarno,
in Ticino Canton, Switzerland; during the following few years the artist often visited Zürich and Basel,
where he became a friend of Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier, and Fritz Wotruba. In 1936, he
received the Prize of the Quadriennale of Rome. In 1938, he married Mercedes Pedrazzini. He accepted a
professorship in sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, in 1940. In 1943, he went into
exile in Switzerland, exhibiting in Basel, Bern, and Zurich. In 1946, the artist settled permanently in
Milan. He is buried at Cimitero Comunale of Pistoia, Toscana, Italy.
Title: "Cavallo e Cavaliere"
(after Marino Marini)
*Signed LR
Circa: 1960
Medium: Original Screenprint
Limited edition: 145/200
Sheet size: 28" x 20"
Image size: 24.5" x 19.5"
Price: SOLD