Sandro Chia, Lithograph Italian Post Modernist Figurative Pop Art - "In The Beginning"

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Sandro Chia (Italian, 1946) Children Holiday, 1984 Lithograph in colors on six sheets of Somerset soft white, 71 x 77 … Read more Sandro Chia (Italian, 1946) Children Holiday, 1984 Lithograph in colors on six sheets of Somerset soft white, 71 x 77 inches (180.3 x 195.6 cm) Numbered A.P. 13/15 (aside from an edition of 75) Hand signed, dated, and numbered in white pencil on one panel with the Circle Fine Art ink stamps, New York, on the reverse. all S. 35¾ x 25¾ in. (908 x 654 mm.) overall S. 71¼ x 77 1/8 in. (1813 x 1962 mm.) (6 panels) Editioned at: The American Atelier in New York City, April, 1984. This Lithograph is comprised of six (6) panels which are hinged together. The artist created all of the plates for each panel by drawing directly onto separate plastic surfaces with a variety of substances including lithographic crayon, stick, pencil and liquid tusche. These completed hand-drawn plastic sheets were then chemically transferred onto a total of 50 separate emulsion-coated aluminum lithographic plates (8 plates each for 4 panels and 9 plates each for 2 panels). Dominant Colors: Brown, Blue, Green & Black. Sheet Size: 71 ½” x 77” Copyright: Embossed © 1984 C.F.A. Corp. Chop(s): Embossed Circle Fine Art Logo; Embossed American Atelier Logo, Blind stamped lower left corner, Sandro Chia. Release Date: May, 1984 Publisher: Circle Fine Art Corporation, Chicago & New York Involvement of Artist with the Printer: The artist drew on each of the plastic sheets for the 6 panels, supervised mixing of the colors, pulled several proofs and made corrections. The artist was present during the printing. Each panel in the edition was pulled, one color at a time, under the direction of Technical Director, Mauro Guiffrida and Director of Flatbed Printing, Michel Tabard at The American Atelier, New York City. Each example of each panel in the edition was inspected by the artist. He signed each example of the lower right hand panel in white pencil, by hand. Biography Sandro Chia was born in Florence in 1946. He has studied at the Istituto d’Arte and then at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence where he graduated in 1969. After graduation, he has travelled extensively in India, Turkey and throughout Europe before settling in Rome in 1970. During the 1970’s he began to exhibit in Rome and Europe, gradually moving away from conceptual works towards a more Pop Art, figurative style of painting. Between September 1980 and August 1981 he received a scholarship from the city of Monchengladbach in Germany where he moved to work for a year. The following year he moved to New York City, where he will remain for over two decades, with frequent trips back to Montalcino, near Siena in Italy. He has been part of the Italian “Transavanguardia” movement, exhibiting in many of the most important museums and galleries of the world. He has exhibited at the Biennale of Paris and San Paolo and three times at the Venice Biennale. His work has been part of internationally acclaimed museum group shows. Amongst his most important personal shows are exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam (1983), the Metropolitan Museum of New York (1984), the National Gallery of Berlin (1984, 1992), the Museum of Modern Art of Paris (1984); the Museums of Dusseldorf (1984), Antwerp (1989), Mexico City (1989); Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence (1991); the Museums of Karlsruhe (1992), Palm Springs (1993), Villa Medici in Rome (1995); Palazzo Reale in Milan (1997), the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida (1997), the Galleria Civica of Siena (1997), the Galleria Civica in Trento (2000), the Museo d’Arte of Ravenna (2000); Palazzo Pitti and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Florence (2002); and most recently the Duomo of St. Agostino in Pietrasanta (2005) and Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna of Rome (GNAM) (2010). In 2003, the Italian State acquired three important works of his for the permanent collection of the Italian Senate at Palazzo Madama, and in 2005 two monumental sculptures were acquired by the Province of Rome and placed in front of its headquarters in Via IV Novembre, Rome. Today he lives between Miami, Rome and his Castello Romitorio wine-making estate in Montalcino, where he also follows the production of prestigious wines, amongst which the world-famous Brunello wine which has won the 'International Wine Challenge' for best red wine in 2010. See less