Viaggio in Italia - Litografie originali di Eugène Berman

Features

Author:  Raffaele Carrieri, Eugène Berman

Publisher:  Piero Fornasetti

Place of printing:  Milan

Year of publication:  1951

Product Condition:
Folder publishing, loose sheets in card stock shown in fair condition (crease down the back, small mancane to the headset) in a box editorial is in bad condition (the adhesive tape to the lower cut, spelature the margins). The cards are well preserved, with very few blooms in the marginal

Pages:  60 (part nn)

Format:  In the folio

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  52
Width:  39

Description

I like to imagine that the first trip to Italy, Eugene Berman, like that of Poussin, of Callot and Claude Gellée occurred in the SEVENTEENTH century. He came from Petersburg and had crossed Germany and France with his cap of fur and the bag full of treatises: Vitruvius, Serlio, Pacioli, Leon Battista Alberti. Palladio knew everything". So Raffaele Carrieri part of this Journey in the Italy of the great painter and stage designer for the Russian Eugène Berman in the tradition of the Grand Tour of the european artists of the past centuries. The text is the backdrop for a splendid lithographs (14 n.t., 3 full-page and 28 plates of which 6 in color) that depict the corners and the Italian monuments in the unique light of the style of the Russian painter who combines the love for the classicism to surrealism and the suggestions of the baroque. Of this edition were printed on the presses at the hand of Piero Fornasetti 200 numbered copies on hand-made paper of the Papeteries de Rives: our copy bears the number 127, and is part of a series of 165 pieces numbered from 6 to 170. Lithographic stones to print run completed, have been destroyed. To the Colophon signed by the artist. To the plate of the folder editorial Fornasetti puts his signature on a lithograph with an unmistakable sun