Abstract forms. Lithograph by listed Italian artist Pericle Fazzini circa 1965

Description: Original lithograph, by listed Italian artist Pericle Fazzini (1913 - 1987) created circa 1965, a pre-edition artist's proof.Depicting a corner of the artist's studio with boxes full of preparatory drawings and the maquette for a biomorphic abstract sculpture.Signed in pencil lower right margin and inscribed "P. d. A." (Prova d'artista) lower left.Stone lithograph, printed in two colours with plate tone; on handmade Arches wove paper. The full sheet framed unmounted in the original stained beech frame.Lithograph in excellent original condition, with one very soft foxing spot at the top edge of the sheet (see photo). The frame with some very slight scratches (see photos).Image size 50cm x 35cm, frame size 73cm x 53cm. Come with our Certificate of Authenticity, guaranteed authentic and original.Delivered ready to hang.Overseas buyers, please check delivery charges to your location through the eBay Global Shipping Program. Pericle Fazzini 1913 - 1987Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker.Pericle Fazzini was born on 4th May 1913 at Grottammare, in the province of Ascoli Piceno in the Marche, to Vittorio Fazzini and Maria Alessandrini. As a boy he worked with his brothers in the family carpentry workshop, where he learned to carve wood. In 1929, at the insistence of family friend and poet Mario Rivosecchi, Fazzini’s father sent him to Rome, where he took drawing classes at the Accademia di Belle Arti. In 1931 he won a competition for his design for the tomb for Cardinal Dusmet in Catania, Italy, and a year later he won the Pensionato Artistico Nazionale, which provided him with the funds necessary to rent a studio in Rome for the next three years.From 1937 to 1952 he served as an instructor at the Museo Artistico Industriale in Rome. During this period he explored different materials in his sculpture, including clay and bronze, won the Premio dell’Accademia d’Italia (in 1942), and had his first solo exhibition (at the Galleria La Margherita, Rome, in 1943) and retrospective (at the Palazzo Barberini, Rome, in 1951). He continued to teach through most of the 1950s, first at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence and then at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. Fazzini’s earliest works were mostly relief sculptures carved in wood: Baroque-inspired compositions with an emphasis on movement and plasticity. Over the next decade his style would take on a more sober affect, though he would never relinquish his preoccupation with plasticity and the idea of the “unfinished” as a means of heightening a work’s expressive quality.Fazzini is best known for his later, more monumental works, including Monument to the Resistance (Monumento alla Resistenza, 1956) in Ancona and Resurrection (La resurrezione, 1972–77), commissioned by the Vatican. Fazzini died in Rome on December 4, 1987.Major Works:Monument to Padre Pio, Piazza Padre Pio, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG)Resurrezione, Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican City.Tabernacolo, Villa Nazareth, RomeMonumento alla Resistenza, AnconaReferences:Fazzini, Pericle (Italian painter and sculptor, 1913-1987). Union List of Artist Names Online. J. Paul Getty Trust. Accessed December 2018.(5 December 1987). Pericle Fazzini, 74, a Sculptor for Vatican. The New York Times. Accessed December 2018.Piero Pacini (2003). Fazzini, Pericle. Grove Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (subscription required).Valerio Rivosecchi (1995). Fazzini, Pericle (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 45. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed January 2015. Pericle Fazzini. Venice: Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Accessed December 2018.

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