Marino Marini (Italy, 1901 - 1980)
ORIZZONTE, (1979 - 1980)
Colour Lithograph on Fabriano Paper
Signed "MARINO" to margin in pencil (lower right)
Numbered "60 / 75" to margin in pencil (lower left)
Blindstamps "S.P.A.D.E.M. Paris" and "FABRIANO" 
42 cms x 31 cms (printed image)
71 cms x 50 cms (sheet size)
90 cms x 68.5 cms (framed)
 
From an Edition of 75 copies signed and numbered 1/75 to 75/75,
with 50 copies signed and numbered I/L a L/L, and 20 artists proofs
(Edition total 145 worldwide)
Quality framed and Art Glass 70 conservation glazed.

Provenance : Guastalla L136 illustrated page 51 of the catalogue raisonne.
Société de la Propriété Artistique et des Dessins et Modèles, blindstamp "S.P.A.D.E.M." is a copyright protection and collection society formed by visual artists and their heirs in France.

One of Italy’s most celebrated sculptors of the 20th century, Marino Marini primarily produced figurative bronze sculptures, though his practice also included paintings, drawings and etchings. Marini drew on the tradition of Etruscan and northern European sculpture, reinterpreting classical themes such as the female nude, the portrait bust, and the equestrian figure, which he combined with aspects of modernism—in particular exaggerated and elongated forms. Towards the end of his career Marini’s sometimes-monumental sculptures became increasingly abstracted. On trips to Paris and New York, he associated with Giorgio de Chirico, Jean Arp, Max Beckmann, and Alexander Calder, among other major modernist artists.

"Marini’s cavalieri are a response to the wave of uncertainty that engulfed civilization during the Cold War. Marini was obsessed with making the horse and rider theme applicable to the contemporary age, and no other artist in the history of 20th century art came close to revitalizing this age-old subject with such creativity and expressive force" - Sothebys, London.

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