The Allegories : Lies - Offset after Renato Guttuso - 1979

1979

Offset print on paper. Catalogue of the exhibition at Galleria Rondanini, Rome. Excellent condition.

Allegories: Lies is vintage poster realized in offset after the Italian artist Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987) in 1979. On the lower left corner, printed: Renato Guttuso - Le Allegorie: Le Menzogne - 1979. Good conditions. Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987). His father Gioacchino, a land-surveyor and amateur watercolourist, and his mother Giuseppina d’Amico, due to disagreements with their own town depending on their liberal ideas, registered the birth on 2 January 1912 in Palermo. In his birthplace Guttuso discovered painting at a very early age; as he himself wrote: “… among my father’s watercolours, the studio of the painter Domenico Quattrociocchi and the workshop of the cart painter Emilio Murdolo my path was taking shape when I was six, seven, ten years old…”. Guttuso was awarded the Lenin Prize at the time of his exhibition at the Art Academy in Moscow, 1972. The same year a large retrospective toured Eastern Europe calling at Praha, Bucarest, Bratislava and Budapest. Two major paintings belong to this period: La Vucciria (1974), later presented by the artist to the University of Palermo, and Caffe Greco...

Renato Guttuso, Italian (1911 - 1987) - Nude Woman, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 200, Image Size: 18 x 21 inches, Size: 20 x 28 ...

Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Without Hope, from The Marquis de Sade Medium: Lithograph in colors on Japon paper Date: 1969 Edition: 6/J Frame Size: 31 5/8" x 25 1/8" Sheet Size: 25 5...