Vintage Marino Marini Lithograph

Rare Marino Marini Limited Edition Lithograph. These were part of a limited edition run by Carl Schunemann Bremen from Dietz Workshop, 1968.

Marino Marini (27 February 1901 – 6 August 1980) was an Italian sculptor and artist. These drawings were part of the preparatory work for a subsequent sculpture.

Between 1929 and 1940, Marini taught at the art school in Monza. He was made Professor of Sculpture at the Brera Academy in Milan in 1940, for although he had begun his career primarily as a painter, by 1931 he had turned to sculpture, the medium for which he is now best known.

However, Marini prepared for his sculptured pieces by making sketches like these in media-pen drawings, lithographs, gouaches, and oil paintings. His three-dimensional sculptures are done in plaster, wood, or bronze, and occasionally in stone. By using a great variety of different media, Marini expresses emotions through color, form, and with a plasticity that in its polychromatic range and its archaic simplicity of shape goes back through the centuries to very early Chinese figurines and Etruscan or Greco-Roman sculpture. His colors are bright: dark wine-reds, purples, and mottled whites, or deep blues, grays, and browns. His themes are few: portrait heads, female figures, and the horse or horse and rider.

Marini's works are noble, rhythmic, and strikingly dynamic. Since 1955 he has become more and more dramatic, roughening the surfaces of his sculptured pieces, distorting their masses, and creating etchings and lithographs as well as paintings with a style and a purity of line that is extremely moving.

In very good vintage condition. Comes unframed.

Measures.

Height 15 inches - 38 cm
Width 11 inches - 28 cm