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Lot 173: Ettore Giorgio ( 1887-1971 ) Italian engraver and painter

Est: $100 USD - $150 USDPassed
East Coast BooksWells, ME, USNovember 04, 2021

Item Overview

Description

Ettore Giorgio ( 1887-1971 ) Italian engraver and painter. Born in Alexandria in Egypt, after his classical studies he moved to Italy where from 1904 to 1911 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence studying above all the techniques of engraving. From 1912 to 1914 he resided in Munich where he began his activity as an engraver practicing woodcut , brought back into vogue by the Italian corporation of woodcutters , founded by Adolfo De Carolis and Ettore Cozzani in those years. Between 1913 and 1914 he was among the illustrators of the magazine L'Eroica , founded and directed in La Spezia by Cozzani, which was one of the most prestigious and exclusive original woodcut exhibitions of the time. At the Biennale of Venice regularly exhibits (except 1934) from 1912 to 1940, both engravings paintings. At the end of the 1920s he was called to teach in Urbino . He continues to take part in exhibitions in Italy (Florence, Livorno, Naples, Viareggio) and abroad (Athens, Berlin). In 1939 he exhibited at the III Quadriennale in Rome and at the National Painting Competition in San Remo in which he was the winner with a Portrait of a Lady , now exhibited at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. Due to an accident he loses the use of his left hand; after 1940 he exhibited more rarely, devoting himself almost exclusively to painting. In 1969 he moved to Viareggio where he died in 1971. Offered here is an original woodcut, unsigned as usual. Image is approx. 8 x 5-1/4 in. plus wide clean margins.

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Auction Details

Art On Paper. Books, Autographs, Historical Paper

by
East Coast Books
November 04, 2021, 01:00 PM EST

PO Box 849, Wells, ME, 04090, US

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