Cob and Lemons Etching and Aquatint by Renato Guttuso, Italy, 1984

Work chosen by RENATO GUTTUSO - COB and LEMONS -

Year 1984 aquatint engraving on paper Magnani Pescia with small margin 87 x 65 cm (plate 700 x 500 mm) signed in pencil and initialled PA known edition 120+XXX+pa Printer/Editor: Torcular Trezzano sul Naviglio.
Published in the general catalogue of Bolaffi della Grafica Italiana volume N. 15 at page 138.
Present also written certificate of note Art Gallery.
In perfect state of preservation, of great commercial value, unobtainable.
Work accompanied by certificate.

Renato Guttuso (Bagheria 1911 - Rome 1987) is considered one of the greatest Italian masters of the twentieth century. Forever linked to his native land, Sicily, which we find in the intense and expressive colours of his works, Guttuso will be one of the most committed and active artists of his time in the political life of the country. He collaborated with numerous art and culture magazines and participated politically in the PCI. He meets, works and shares the ideas of artists and intellectuals such as Birolli, Sassu, Manzù, Fontana, Quasimodo, Persico, Moravia, Alicata, Pasolini, Neruda, De Filippo. A realist dimension of art, close to Corrente's group, in contrast with the primitivism of ''Novecento'', Guttuso carries on the idea of a politically and socially committed art. He lived almost all his life in Rome, with a Milanese interlude in 1935, a Parisian one that allowed him to forge a friendship with Picasso and his departure from the capital, for political reasons, in 1943, the year in which he actively participated in the anti-fascist resistance (a period of which he left testimony thanks to drawings made in ink). He was one of the founders of the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti movement, whose aim was to recover the major European artistic trends - considered ''degenerate art'' by totalitarian regimes - to make it a means of communicating contemporary political and social reality. The protagonists of his works are in fact the workers, the exploited, the marginalized, the humble people of his land: sulphur workers, farmers and pickpockets. Among the artist's masterpieces are The Crucifixion (1940-1941), in which the sacrifice of Christ becomes a metaphor for the suffering caused by war, arousing bitter controversy in the Vatican; Boogie Woogie (1954); The Discussion (1959-1960), Vucciria (1964).

Dimensions:
With frame = H.98 x L.77 cm
Picture = H.70 x L.48 cm