ANSELMO BUCCI

(Fossombrone 25 May 1887- Monza 19 November 1955)

"REPOS", (RIPOSO)

1915/1917

Original dry point.

Pointe sèche originale.

Signed in pencil lower right.

Signée au crayon en bas à droite.

Numbered 19/25 lower left.

Numerotée 19/25 en bas à gauche.

Rare edition on Japan paper edited in 25 copies.

Rare edition sur papier Japon éditée à 25 exemplaires.

Original dry point on copperplate, printed on Japan paper.

Pointe sèche originale sur cuivre, imprimée sur papier Japon.

From: "CROQUIS DU FRONT ITALIEN", 2nd album.

De: "CROQUIS DU FRONT ITALIEN", 2ème album.

Published in Paris in 1917.

Publiée à Paris en 1917.

                      260mm (H) by 362mm (L) [paper/papier]

Anselmo Bucci was born in Fossombrone. Having attended the Brera Academy in Milan from 1904 to1905, he moved to Paris with Leonardo Dudreville in 1906.

As a painter of Symbolist works with marked Fauvist overtones, he made his debut at the Salon des Art Décoratifs in 1907 and took part in the Salon des Indépendants from 1910 on.

He enlisted in the Volunteer Cyclist Battalion in 1915 and his first solo show (Milan, Famiglia Artistica, 1915) took place while he was on leave. 

He lives the war experience with a lot of the Futurism movement's exponents.

In 1922 he fell in with the movement for a "return to order" of the  Novecento Italiano" in the post-war period, and took part in a join exhibition at the Venice Biennale, first at the 12th Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte di Venezia in 1920 and again in 1924, on which occasion one of his works was bought for the city's gallery of modern art.

One of the founding members of the Sette pittori del Novecento Italiano, he took part in the group's first show in 1926 but not the second.

During the 1930's, when he divided his time between Milan and Paris, Neoclassical rigidity gave way to greater freedom in his painting.

It was in 1938 that he produced the fresco "Italian Civilisation Putting an End to Slavery" for the Palazzo di Giustizia in Milan.

He died in Monza, aged 68.