Still Life - Lithograph by Raffaello Piraino - 1970s
By Raffaello Piraino
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original colored lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Italian artist Raffaello Piraino (1938). Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil. Numbered on the lower left in pencil, edition of 59/90 prints. The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. "Raffaello Piraino he began teaching mosaic technique at the Art Institute of Monreale, He has to master painters like Pippo Rizzo and Eustachio Catalano, in Salzburg he attended a lithographic technique over and in 1963 he founded in Palermo the Art Gallery at the Borgo with adjoining intaglio printing and lithography. That activity lasts twenty years and it is for the artist an important vehicle for its artistic and cultural training. For Recos publisher of Thessaloniki illustrates the Iliad and the Odyssey and publishes numerous folders of etchings and lithographs accompanied by texts by Nello Ponente, Alfonso Gatto Leonardo Sciascia and Tono Zancanaro. In 1977, the opera Teatro Massimo of Palermo Institution calls him to design the sets and costumes of comic opera Les Mamelles de Tirésias of Poulanc. The success opens the doors to other theatrical achievements, film and television. He draws for the Teatro Biondo in Palermo the costumes for Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderon de la Barca. In those years he begins collecting artifacts...
1970s Figurative Prints
Lithograph
