Screen printing by Giuseppe Migneco - Without title

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Artist: Giuseppe Migneco (1908-1997)

Artwork title: Senza titolo

Age: Contemporary

Subject: Scene with Figures

Artistic technique: Multiple Print

Technical specification: Screen Printing

Description : Senza titolo

Screen printing on canvas. Signed lower left. On the back is the serial number 114/200. Giuseppe Migneco, originally from Messina but moved to Milan as a young man, was one of the major representatives, together with Aligi Sassu, Renato Birolli, Bruno Cassinari, Renato Guttuso, of the Corrente group open to the European artistic avant-gardes. In favor of a painting of social commitment, he investigates reality with a critical, objective, historical eye. His characters with hard, square faces, marked by hard work and rendered with bright and strong tones, recall his Sicily with violent and clear features, but also the social realism of Mexican muralists. His works travel the world. This silk-screen printing, which is part of the series of fishermen figures, widely re-proposed by Migneco in many variations, is absolutely compliant with his most famous production. In this case, he is a retired fisherman, who offers his partner the fruit of his work. The screen printing shows traces of a very slight tear, identifiable only by the repair on the back.

Product Condition:
Product in good condition, with small signs of wear.

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 130
Width: 160

Additional Information

Artist: Giuseppe Migneco (1908-1997)

Born in Messina in 1903, after completing his classical studies in his hometown Giuseppe Migneco moved to Milan in 1931 where he began to study medicine. There he earns his living and begins his entry into the world of art by drawing sketches for the "Corriere dei Piccoli" and by retouching for the publisher Rizzoli. In this period he began his pictorial activity creating paintings with autobiographical contents. The turning point took place in 1934. Migneco comes into contact with Aligi Sassu, Renato Birolli, Raffaele De Grada from whom he is enchanted. In 1937 he was one of the founders of the "Corrente" movement which brings together artists from different cultural horizons. After the war Migneco refined his taste for "social realism" under the influence of Mexican wall painters. One of his admirers called him a “wood carver who carves with a brush”. In the fifties the fame, by now consolidated, consecrates Giuseppe Migneco among the masters of contemporary Italian art, he exhibits in the most prestigious national and foreign galleries: Gothenburg, Boston, Paris, Stuttgart, New York, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Zurich. He participates in 5 editions of the Venice International Art Exhibition and in 5 editions of the Rome Quadriennale. He died in Milan in 1997.