Presentation
Mario Avati (1921-2009) is a French painter and engraver, remembered as the foremost mezzotint artist, after Yozo Hamaguchi. After attending the National School of Decorative Arts in Nice and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Mario Avati practiced, from 1947, all printmaking techniques, contributing to the revival of graphic techniques as popular artists' media.
Ten years later, he turned, almost exclusively, towards the black way2, first in black, then, from 1969, in color. In doing so, he helped revive this graphic technique as a medium for popular expression.
His favorite graphic technique, applied to his timeless still lifes, is the mezzotint, among the most demanding, abandoned because it was "too difficult", but with the final result of an emerging image from a deep black "nothingness". Avati's international fame is confirmed by numerous awards, documentary films made in Japan, in the USA and in Europe and an uncountable number of participations in exhibitions and art events all over the world.
Au bal costumé
Mario Avati
Fine Art Drawings - 54 x 44.2 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.3 x 17.4 x 0 inch
€3,000
Le petit œuf à la coque 1978 The small boiled egg
Mario Avati
Print - 22 x 24 cm Print - 8.7 x 9.4 inch
€1,950
Bouteilles nature morte Bottles still life
Mario Avati
Print - 11 x 15 cm Print - 4.3 x 5.9 inch
€990
Cerise bleue, pastèque rouge Blue cherry, red watermelon
Mario Avati
Print - 11 x 15 cm Print - 4.3 x 5.9 inch
€990
Exhibitions dedicated to Mario Avati
GALERIE LISE CORMERY
Print From ancestral to digital
From December 3, 2023 to June 6, 2024
GALERIE LISE CORMERY
Brothers Animals, do you have a soul?
From November 22, 2023 to June 10, 2024
GALERIE LISE CORMERY
Parisian Galleries Week 2023
From November 22, 2023 to December 2, 2023
GALERIE LISE CORMERY
THE ENGRAVING ART
From December 10, 2021 to December 10, 2021
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Classically-Inspired Illustrative Artists
Detailed Somber Illustrations
Contemporary Urban Landscapes
Printmakers Artists
Draughtsmen Artists
Monacan artists
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