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Clown and white horse, oil on
canvas, signed
l/l,
23.5" x 17.25" sight,
26.5"
x 20.75" frame.
About the Painting: Very good condition overall, but there is
an abrasion with minor paint loss in the
clown's ruffle, near the edge of the painting.
There are numerous places where the artist
has left the primer to show and there is
some wear around the stretcher bars. The
frame is new.
About the Artist: Marino Marini was born in Pistoia in 1901.
In 1917 he enrolled in the Florence
Academia
di Belle Arti where he followed
courses in
painting taught by Galileo Chini
and sculpture
by Domenico Trentacoste. These
early years
of artistic activity in Via degli
Artisti
were mainly devoted to painting
and drawing.
Marini's first important sculpture,
Popolo
(in terracotta), was produced
in 1929, the
same year in which he was invited
by Arturo
Martini to move to Milan and
teach at Villa
Reale in Monza. This was also
the year in
which he exhibited in Nice with
the Novecento
group and undertook his first
trip to Paris.
His first solo exhibition was
in Milan in
1932 and in 1935 he won first
prize at theRome
Quadriennale.
In 1938 he married Mercedes Pedrazzini
(affectionately
nicknamed Marina) who was to
be a constant
and explicit presence in his
artistic personality.
Marini left Villa Reale in 1940
for the chair
of sculpture at the Brera Academy
which he
held until 1943 when the war
(which had led
to the destruction of his studio)
caused
him to retreat to the Swiss Canton
of Ticino
which was the birthplace of his
wife. This
time was rich in contacts with
both old and
new friends from Paris such as
Wotruba, Germaine
Richier, Giacometti, Haller and
Banninger.
There are many portraits in bronze
and plaster
from this period and in 1944
Marini exhibited
at the Kunstmuseum in Basle.
When the war was over Marini
returned to
his previous existence in Milan,
reopening
his studio and taking up his
teaching job
at Brera again. At the 24th Venice
Biennale
in 1948 a room was dedicated
to his works.
He met Henry Moore, with whom
he formed a
lifelong friendship, and Curt
Valentin, the
American merchant who organised
an exhibition
for him in New York in 1950.
The Accademia
dei Lincei awarded him the Feltrinelli
prize
in 1952 and in 1957 the Hague
city council
commissioned a large equestrian
group, a
copy of which is on display in
San Pancrazio.
More and more personal exhibitions
followed
in northern Europe and Marini
intensified
his output of paintings (an area
of activity
which he had never abandoned)
in the mid
60s. In 1973 the Marino Museum
exhibition
was inaugurated in the Civica
Galleria d'Arte
Moderna in Milan with an important
collection
of portraits. A permanent display
was dedicated
to him at the Neue Pinakothen
in Munich in
1976, in 1978 an exhibition of
paintings
and sculptures was taken to Japan
and in
1979 a documentation centre for
his works
was set up in Pistoia.
Marino Marini died in Viareggio
in 1980.
NOTE: We are unable to state with certainty that
this is the work of Marino Marini. It is,
therefore, offered "after" the
artist - priced accordingly. The painting
is probably thirty or forty years old, is
stylistically correct, and bears a signature
similar to others we've seen in photographs
of Marini's work.
$ 945.00
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