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Mario Avati (1921-2009) - Table with Bottles - 1978 - bronze sculpture - edition of 100 copies - Edizione Olivetti
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Product description
Artist: Mario Avati (1921-2009)
Title: Tavolo con Bottiglie
Technique: Sculpture in black lacquered bronze
Year: 1978
Dimensions: 17 cm high, 13 cm wide, 7.5 cm deep
Weight: 2268 g
Condition: Good condition
Marked: on the bottom Edizione Olivetti
Numbered: 64/100
Signed: on the side Avati 78
Mario Avati (1921-2009)
After studying at the École nationale des arts décoratifs in Nice and at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris, Avati began with etching and aquatint, but switched to the difficult mezzotint technique in 1957, through which he contributed to its revival. His mastery of mezzotint is particularly evident in his remarkable still lifes, depicting everyday objects such as fruit, eggs, flowers, and musical instruments. These objects, with their clean contours, are bathed in the splendor of their own light or in a mysterious chiaroscuro. More than thirty exhibitions in Europe, the United States, and Japan, five films about his work, and book illustrations—including Baudelaire, Lewis Carroll, and the Bible—attest to Mario Avati's international reputation.
His works can be found in many museums around the world. In France, he is represented in some thirty institutions, including the Chalcographie at the Louvre, and abroad in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Gabinetto delle Stampe degli Uffizi in Florence, the National Library of Madrid, the Tokyo Museum, the Museum of Art in Johannesburg, and in major private collections. He has won numerous prizes: the Prix de la critique, Paris (1957), the Gold Medal of the 1st Biennial for Engraving in Florence (1969), the Lions Club Award, Florence (1972), the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris (1981), the Nahed Ojjeh Prize of the Académie des beaux-arts (1997).
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ConditionExcellentColorsBlackMaterialBronzeNumber of items1Height17 cmWidth13 cmDepth8 cm
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Private sellerAmsterdam, NetherlandsOn Whoppah since September 2021 • 39 sales