ALBERTO MAGNELLI
XXe Siècle N.4, Noël 1938
French Art Magazine
Chroniques du Jour, Paris
One Alberto Magnelli Linocut Print

PRINT DETAILS:
Artist : ALBERTO MAGNELLI
Date : 1938
Medium : Original Edition Linocut
Edition : One of the original 8 prints from XXe Siècle N.4, Noël 1938
              (French art magazine: 20th Century, No. 4, Christmas 1938)
Color :  Orange on light tan background.
Signed : Unsigned
Movement & Style : Abstract.
Size : 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (31.75 x 24.765 cm)

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Alberto Magnelli (1 July 1888 – 20 April 1971) was born in Florence, Italy. Self-taught, he was an admirer of Renaissance artists Andrea del Castagno, Paolo Uccello, and Piero della Francesca. He was particularly interested in fresco painting, whose influence is apparent in his experimental compositions in collage, painting, and drawing. In 1911 the founder of Futurism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, invited him to join his artistic and social movement, but Magnelli declined. Although he exhibited with the group, he instead followed the path of abstraction, even while retaining some Futurist elements.
        Early in his career, Magnelli traveled to Paris to visit fellow artists; in 1914 he bought works by Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Carlo Carrà, and Alexander Archipenko for his uncle, the collector Alessandro Magnelli. In this period, Magnelli’s work was primarily figurative, as in Man on a Cart (L’Homme à la charrette, 1914). The artist’s first abstract works appeared during the winter of 1914–15. He made a series of what he called “invented works,” such as Painting No. 0528 (Peinture No. 0528, 1915), characterized by bright areas of colors and elliptical patterns. In 1916 he started his military training, and upon his release began experimenting with geometric figuration, as seen in the series Lyric Explosion (Explosion lyrique, 1918). These pictures celebrate the end of the war, creatively integrating Fauvist color, the dynamism of Futurism, and the armature of Cubism. After the war, Magnelli traveled to Germany, Switzerland, France, and Austria before eventually settling in Paris in 1930. A trip the following year through the Carrara marble region in Italy inspired the series Stones (Pierres, 1931–36): haunting, Surrealistic portrayals of massive marble blocks rendered in simplified lines, an abstracted and heavy plasticity against an otherworldly background.

ABOUT XXe SIÈCLE the French Art Magazine
XXe Siècle - French Art Magazine Featuring Original Works by Important Modernists like Chagall, Miró Ernst and many others well-known Artists. The founder of the publication XXe Siècle was an Italian-born art historian Gualtieri di San Lazzaro (1904-1974). XXe Siècle published articles about the twentieth-century’s most influential artists alongside original lithographic prints by those very artists. The periodical was published intermittently between 1938 and San Lazzaro’s death in 1974, for a total of about sixty issues.

CONDITION
FINE in the original state with the edges untrimmed and the publisher’s staple holes to the left edge (12.5” x 9.75”).

HERE IS A SAMPLING OF SOME OF OUR RECENT 100% POSITIVE FEEDBACK:
- Exceptional packaging, swift transaction, very happy with item.
- Beautiful books, well described, meticulously packed, quickly sent, thank you.
- Great experience, item packed very well, awesome seller.
- EXPERT and PROFESSIONAL in ALL areas! OF COURSE would BUY again! SUPER SELLER!
- Item EXCEEDS Expectations...MANY Thanks!!!
- Excellent!!! Better than expected!! So happy with this purchase!
- Wow! superior packaging, I mean above and beyond! nice touches. recommend highly
- Repeat buyer. Perfect service. Genuine antique Victorian scrap.

There is no reserve on this item, only a fair starting bid.
SAFE AND SECURE SHIPPING IN A BOX

SHIPPING
- FREE SHIPPING FOR U.S. WINNING BUYER
- FOREIGN BUYERS MUST PAY SHIPPING by USPS International Priority Mail.
- Will gladly combine shipping costs when possible.
- Payment can be made by PayPal. Email me for other payment options.
- Massachusetts residents must pay Mass. Sales Tax 6.25% on some items.
- NEW!!!: Ebay is now collecting SALES TAX on items sent to the States of Alabama, California, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and others.