Untitled, 1970

Luigi Montanarini  

Untitled is a beautiful colored serigraph on paper, realized in 1970 by the Italian artist, Luigi Montanarini (1906-1998) and published by La Nuova Foglio, a publishing house of Macerata, Italy. Image dimensions: 49 x 37 cm. Hand-signed and numbered in pencil on the lower margin. From a rare edition of 1970 with a circulation of 100 prints. In this contemporary artwork, representing synthetic colorful abstract composition characterized by vivid colors and sharp geometries, Montanarini frees the color from the geometric rigor by unfolding thick shapes that cleave and interpenetrate on the sheet, letting other shapes shine through. In excellent conditions, except for some minor stains on the margins. This artwork comes with the warranty certificate glued on the back of the sheet and written by the publishing house, La Nuova Foglio. An Italian Informal artwork for your art collection at an affordable price, to keep jealously!

Luigi Montanarini (Florence, 1906 - Rome, 1998) His artistic career started a little by chance when, in 1925, during one of his frequent visits to the Uffizi, he met the painter Maurice Denis and in the same year he made his first stay in France. In 1927 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and began the artistic and emotional bond with Felice Carena, his teacher of painting.

He immediately showed great passion and love for the classics and for the masters of the nineteenth century, from Courbet to Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. After graduating from the academy he makes his second trip to Europe: he visits the Netherlands twice and renews his interest in Rubens, Van Gogh and Rembrandt. Later he visited Zurich and returned to Paris, where he met Gino Severini and attended Alberto Magnelli, Picasso and had fertile intellectual exchanges with Jacques Villon and Alfred Manessier.

He adheres to the Roman School (Novecento) together with which he exhibits at the "La Cometa" Gallery in Rome. The following year, at the end of the war, he founded together with Pericle Fazzini, Enrico Prampolini, Joseph Jarema and Virgilio Guzzi, the Art Club based in Via Margutta 54. He met and attended Lionello Venturi, returned to Italy after the exile of Fascist period. The year 1956 marks the beginning of its informal period and in 1965 he became director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and a member of UNESCO, which he held until 1976.