(Cupramontana, Ancona, 1892 - Rome 1963)
LE VIOLETTE , 1939
Etching, signed and dated in the plate Luigi Bartolini / 1939. Titled and signed by the artist at bottom margin in pencil Le violette / Luigi Bartolini and inscribed (rarissima). Fine impression pulled in black ink, with rich tone, on wove paper. On the verso the label Acquaforte di Luigi Bartolini. 182 x 167 mm, the sheet 415 x 250 mm.
REFERENCES:
1951 - Petrucci-Calcografia, no. 770 (e.u.)
1962 - Ronci-Calcografia, no. 770 (e.u.)
1972 - Barsanti/Gall. Marino no. 885 (e.u.)
1984 - Bartolini incisore all’acquaforte no. 98 – L’Attico
Here the entry for this etching on the site luigibartolini.com
By sure a very rare print, often described as e.u. (esemplare unico)
See, on Bartolini prolific activity as an etcher, the website luigibartolini.com, constantly updated.
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.
