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Giacomo Manzú"Omaggio a Michelangelo" Monochromatic Abstract Figurative Etching Ed 98/20020th Century
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Monochromatic abstract figurative etching by Italian artist Giacomo Manzú. The piece depicts an image of Jesus Christ with a distinct facial expression on wove paper. Signed and editioned 98/200 by the artist at the bottom. Glass framed in a natural wooden frame.
This particular work is included in the 1975 Portfolio "Omaggio a Michelangelo" (Homage to Michelangelo) which comprises 13 prints (8 partly colored etchings and 5 color lithographs). The portfolio includes other original signed and editioned prints by artists Horst Antes, Jorge Castillo, Emilio Greco, Renato Guttuso, David Hockney, Jean Ipoustéguy, Fiacomo Manzù, Marino Marini, André Masson, Henry Moore, Eduardo Paolzzi, Fritz Wotruba, and Paul Wunderlich.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 31 in. x W 23.5 in.
Artist Biography: Giacomo Manzù, original name Giacomo Manzoni, (born December 22, 1908, Bergamo, Italy—died January 17, 1991, Ardea), Italian sculptor who, in the mid-20th century, revived the ancient tradition of creating sculptural bronze doors for ecclesiastical buildings. His sober realism and extremely delicate modeling alternately achieved austere severity and sensuousness of form and surface, lending a new spirit of vitality to figurative bronze sculpture.
Manzù had to leave school at an early age to learn a trade, and he was apprenticed to local craftsmen who taught him to carve wood and to work in metal and stone. After service in the Italian army from 1927 to 1928, Manzù went to Paris to try his luck as a sculptor, but after three weeks he collapsed from hunger and was deported back to Italy. He settled in Milan, and, after receiving a commission in 1929 to decorate a chapel at the Catholic University, he devoted himself to sculpting full-time.
Manzù’s early works were nudes, portraits, and biblical subjects, executed in a style that at first was influenced by Etruscan, Egyptian, and medieval art. However, he soon adopted the Impressionist techniques of the Italian sculptor Medardo Rosso. Manzù visited Rome in 1934, a trip that inspired him to concentrate on religious themes. In 1938 he sculpted the figure of a Roman Catholic cardinal, initiating a series of more than 50 seated or standing cardinals. He also sculpted many tender portrayals of female nudes. Manzù’s most noteworthy work of the war years was Francesca, a seated nude that won the Grand Prix of the Rome Quadriennale in 1942.
In 1948 Manzù was awarded the first prize for Italian sculpture at the Venice Biennale. Two years later he was commissioned to create a set of monumental bronze doors for St. Peter’s in Rome. The portal was dedicated in 1964, after the death of Pope John XXIII whose official portrait Manzù had executed. Among his other commissions were doors for Salzburg Cathedral (1958), in Austria, and the Church of Sankt-Laurents in Rotterdam (1969), The Netherlands, and a relief, Mother and Child (1965), for Rockefeller Center in New York City.
- Creator:Giacomo Manzú (1908 - 1991, Italian)
- Creation Year:20th Century
- Dimensions:Height: 38.5 in (97.79 cm)Width: 30.75 in (78.11 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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- Condition:Excellent condition.
- Gallery Location:Houston, TX
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