"BLUE SPACE" - Giuseppe Santomaso

         limited edition lithograph # 18 of 110

NOTE: I retook three pictures during the daytime - please excuse my reflection in glass of frame

                                                     

Giuseppe Santomaso (Italian, 1907-1990): 

Lithograph numbered 18/110, signed in pencil and dated '68 in lower right. Abstract composition with hues of blue. Frame is approximately 20" X 21" with lithograph approximately 19 1/2" X 18 1/2". There is no mat. The border is part of the print and is slightly raised at the border of the actual print. The signature is in pencil by the artist as is the date and title of lithograph.

My Dad was owner is 1968 and took care and love with his collections. The glass of frame shows glares and slight reflections. If a buyer is very interested, I will consider removing the lithograph from the frame. If your are truly interested I will take the print out of the frame. Estimated appraised value runs $350 - $500 at auction.

HISTORY:

       Giuseppe Santomaso was born in Venice on September 26, 1907. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti there from 1932 to 1934. In 1938 he began his work in graphics, a medium that continued to interest him. IN 1939 he traveled to Paris for his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Rive Gauche. Santomaso participated in the Quadriennale of Rome in 1943 and executed illustrations for Paul Eluard's GRAND AIR in 1945. IN 1946 he was founding member of the antifascists artists' organization Nuova Secessione Artistica Italian-Fronte Nuovo delle Arti in Venice.

       Since 1948, Santomaso participated often in the Venice Biennale, where he was awarded the Prize of the Municipality of Venice in 1048 and First Prize for Italian Painting in 1954. He received the Graziano Prize from the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan in 1956 and the Marzotto Prize at the Mostra Internazionale di pittkura contemporanea in Valdagno in 1958, as well as other awards. Santomaso taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice form 1957 to 1975. His first exhibition in the United States was held at the Grace Borgenicht Gallery in New York in 1957. The Stedelijk Museum I Amsterdam gave this artist a solo exhibition in 1960.

       In 1961, Santomaso participated in the Sao Paulo Bienal and he traveled to Brazil the following year. A Santomaso retrospective toured from the Kunstverein in Hamburg to the Haus am Lutzowplatz in Berlin and the Museum am Ostwall in Dortmund in 1965-66. He contributed lithographs to On Angle, a book of Ezra Pound's poetry published in 1971.His work appeared in the International Engraving Biennial in Cracow in 1972 and 1978. Solo exhibitions of his work were presented in 1979 by the famous Joan Miro in Barcelona and the Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst in Munich. The Borgenicht Gallery organized a Santomaso show for the spring of 1983. Santomaso died on May 23, 1990, in Venice where he was born.

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