1970s Toti Scialoja Abstract Signed Numbered and Dated Artwork

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1970s Toti Scialoja Abstract Signed Numbered and Dated Artwork

Wonderful abstract composition by one of the most important artist of … Read more 1970s Toti Scialoja Abstract Signed Numbered and Dated Artwork

Wonderful abstract composition by one of the most important artist of the Italian avangarde Toti Scialoja (Rome 1914 – 1998)
Handmade titled and date in lower middle "Aleph, alpha, 1975"
Etching, aquatint,
Numbered copy n. 23/50
Signature and date in pencil lower right.
Dry stamp at lower left, by printer Grafica dei Greci, Rome.
This artwork, never before on the market, comes from an important European private collection and is beautified by an impressive original frame in laquered wood, in almost perfect condition.
Dimensions are frame included

The painting is also protected by glass

Toti Scialoja, born Antonio Scialoja (Rome, December 16, 1914 – Rome, March 1, 1998), was an Italian painter and poet. After an expressionist period, he turned to an abstract-concrete pictorial language with a strong material charge. A significant part of his work was dedicated to theater, for which he collaborated with avant-garde writers, musicians, directors, and choreographers.
In 1961, he began an original career as a poet, dedicated in part to children, creating nonsense and limericks and illustrating his own poems.
He was a teacher and director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he had many contemporary artists as students, such as Mario Ceroli, Pino Pascali, Gian Carlo Riccardi, Jannis Kounellis, and Carlo Battaglia, who often remembered him as an important inspiration for their artistic careers.
After abandoning his legal studies, he began to devote himself to painting in 1937.
In 1939, one of his drawings was noted by the jury of the Rome Quadriennale, and in 1940 he held his first solo exhibition in Genoa.
He later devoted himself to theater as well; in 1943, his production of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera was banned by the fascist authorities.
During the war and before joining the Resistance, he exhibited in Rome with Giulio Turcato and Emilio Vedova. In 1945, he married Titina Maselli. He was then married to Gabriella Drudi until the end of his life.
However, it was in the 1950s that (similar to what happened to Emilio Scanavino) his art underwent a definitive change, abandoning the expressionist and cubist styles of his early work and finding its definitive path in informal abstraction.
In 1945, he married the painter Titina Maselli. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1950, 1952, and 1954.
Between 1955 and 1965, he traveled and stayed in America and Paris, exhibiting at the Viviano Gallery in Manhattan, achieving international fame and notoriety and coming into contact with other leading figures of abstract expressionism, befriending Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Motherwell, among others.
He participated again in the Venice Biennale in 1964 and in 1966 held a solo exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery.
Among the first admirers of his poetic work were Italo Calvino, Giorgio Manganelli, Antonio Porta, Alberto Arbasino, and Giovanni Raboni. Scialoja continued his poetic vocation in parallel with his painting until the end of his life.
He married twice, first to Titina Maselli and then to Gabriella Drudi.
During the 1970s, Scialoja went through a long period of pause and reflection on his painting (which corresponded to an expansion and great vitality on a poetic level, with the publication of La Stanza la Stizza l'astuzia, his first collection of poetry aimed exclusively at an adult audience), before resuming with incredible vigor and inspiration from 1982 until his death. It seems that this new inspiration was due to the artist's viewing of Goya's paintings at the Prado; in fact, in 1983, Scialoja painted a remarkable San Isidro da Goya.
He returned with great success to the Biennale in 1984 with a personal exhibition. The latter phase of his life saw the creation of his most successful works. In 1991, a major retrospective was dedicated to him at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, and an exhibition of his drawings for children, previously presented in Bologna at the Gallery of Modern Art, was opened in the halls of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni. This piece has an attribution mark,
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