(Tissano (Udine) 1884 – Venice 1944)
CORTE BOTTERA IN VENICE, 1913
Etching, a rich impression of the first state of two, with margins. Titled, dated and signed in pencil bottom margin Venezia 1913 / Fabio Mauroner.
To the platemark 300 x 224 mm. The entire sheet 439 x 272.
Our first state, is preliminary to the lightening of the shadowed parts and to a greater definition of the related architectural elements, and before the signature in the plate.
See, for a precise description of the two states, Fabio Mauroner, incisore : catalogo della mostra a cura di Isabella Reale ; presentazione di Guido Perocco. Pordenone : Grafiche Editoriali Artistiche Pordenonesi, c 1984.
I warmly thank Giorgio Marini, who pointed out this catalogue to me.
Fabio Mauroner was an Italian painter and engraver, known mainly for his vedute of Venice. Mauroner was born in Udine and moved to Venice in 1905. In Venice, Fabio shared a studio with Amedeo Modigliani, while studying printmaking with Edward M. Synge. Over the next thirty years, Mauroner executed approximately one hundred and thirty prints. He was a friend of Emanuele Brugnoli, another modern Venetian vedutista. In 2011, Mauroner and Brugnoli were featured in an exhibition (The Heirs of Canaletto: Fabio Mauroner and Emanuele Brugnoli in Venice, 1905-1940) at the Italian Embassy in Washington D.C., which took place at the same time that an exhibit titled Canaletto and his rivals was being held at the National Gallery in the same city. Fabio Mauroner was also a collector of engravings by the main Venetian vedutisti: Canaletto, Guardi, Bellotto. Some of his main works are now part of the heritage of Italian museums, thanks to a testamentary bequest.