LINO BIANCHI BARRIVIERA
(Montebelluna 1906 - Acilia 1985)
L'ORCHIDEA DELLA NOTTE DI SANTO STEFANO (The orchid of Boxing Day night), 1941
(Montebelluna 1906 - Acilia 1985)
L'ORCHIDEA DELLA NOTTE DI SANTO STEFANO (The orchid of Boxing Day night), 1941
Zinc etching.
Fifth state of five. Titled, signed and dated in the plate at bottom Lino Bianchi Barriviera 1941 - 27 dic. L'orchidea della notte di S. Stefano, signed in pencil bottom margin Lino Bianchi Barriviera. On paper with watermark GRAPHIA. To the platemark 101 x 123 mm, the full sheet 249 x 346
About the artist
Lino Bianchi Barriviera (Barriviera is his mother's surname that he added to his father's in 1933), was a painter and engraver. After the early years of his youth, he lived in Venice and Florence, settled permanently in Rome in 1935 and at the end of the 70s he moved to Acilia. The artist's fame is linked above all to his large production as an engraver, more than 950 plates, for which he mainly used etching but also experimented with various other techniques. It should also be noted that he also performed masterfully in other forms of art, first of all oil painting, and then wall frescoes and tempera decorations, wood carving, stained glass, mosaics, ceramics, embossing, stamp engraving and goldsmithing.
