Mario Avati (French 1921-2009) Super Mezzotint Eggs in Nest.Museum Quality Piece

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You are bidding on a Mario Avati (French 1921-2009) Super Mezzotint Eggs in Nest.Museum Quality Piece. Signed lower right AVATI. Vous souhaite une bonne annee 1968 (wish you a happy new year). Mezzotint is in Excellent condition, mount has some minor marks. Front and back of print are like a booklet. Szie 7.5cm x9.5cm. Mount 12.5cm x 15cm A little more on the artist : Not many masters of modern art have dedicated most of their artistic talents to the medium of the mezzotint. From the rocking of the plate to the scraping and burnishing to bring light out of the darkness, the mezzotint has rightly been called the most delicate and complex of all art methods. Yet no other art can give birth to such magnificent areas of light and shade as this purely tonal medium. The leading twentieth century artists of the mezzotint are D. E. Galinis, Yozo Hamaguchi, Kiyoshi Hasagawa and Mario Avati. From an Italian background, Mario Avati was born in Monaco and studied art in Paris. His first one man exhibitions were in Paris, where he has resided for most of his career. By 1955 Avati had achieved an international reputation with major exhibitions of his art in New York, Tokyo, London and Los Angeles. Avati’s American connections are well known: he has worked with the prestigious Tamarind Workshop and the Museum of Modern Art in New York owns one read more

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