(Cupramontana, Ancona, 1892 - Rome 1963)
LA GUERRA (Scarabei Stercorari), 1943
Etching, 1943. Only state, signed, dated and inscribed in the plate L Bartolini 1943 il pitocco gli assassini. Printed on china applique on cardboard, titled, numbered and signed at bottom in black chalk La guerra degli scarabei stercorari Es. 7/30 Luigi Bartolini.
To the platemark 239 x 274 mm.
For other impressions of this etching see:
Giuseppe Appella, Vanni Scheiwiller, Luigi Bartolini. L'uomo, l'artista, lo scrittore, Rome 1989; cat. No. 206 illustrated.
Mauro Corradini, Luigi Bartolini incisioni 1925 - 1956, Lecco, 1992; cat. No. 32, illustrated.
Nicola Miceli, Mino Rosi e Luigi Bartolini. Un Sodalizio Intellettuale. Le Incisioni di Luigi Bartolini nella Collezione Rosi della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Volterra, Pontedera, 1998; cat. No. 99, illustrated.
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Painter, printmaker, writer, poet and polemicist, Bartolini spent his youth in Rome, Siena and Florence and completed his studies in 1910 at the Istituto di Belle Arti in Siena. As a printmaker he made his first etchings around 1909 in Florence, where he studied the prints of Jacques Callot, Giovanni Fattori and Rembrandt. During the World War I, Bartolini fought as an officer at the Front. He resumed his artistic activity in 1919, establishing himself mainly as a printmaker. In 1932, along with Giorgio Morandi, he won a prize at the Mostra dell’Incisione Italiana in Florence and in 1935 obtained first prize for printmaking at the second Quadriennale at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, where he exhibited 50 etchings. He exhibited again his prints at the Biennale in Venice, in 1942, at the Rassegna Internazionale in Lugano, in 1952, and at the Calcografia Nazionale in Rome, in 1962.
Since a few years a website exists entirely devoted to Luigi Bartolini as etcher luigibartolini.com Edited by Dario Palma in collaboration with Luciana Bartolini, the site is constantly updated.
