Plate (folio 31) from 23 Gravures

Plate (folio 31) from 23 Gravures

Alberto MagnelliWW-1934-M006788

Catalogue

Year
1934
Dimensions
plate: 8 7/16 × 6 9/16" (21.5 × 16.7 cm); sheet: 11 × 8 7/8" (28 × 22.5 cm)

Artist

Alberto Magnelli
Alberto Magnelli

Painting

Alberto Magnelli was an Italian painter and sculptor whose geometric abstractions emerged from Cubism in the early 1910s and remained rooted in formal reduction throughout his career. Working primarily in oil on canvas and bronze, he developed a vocabulary of interlocking planes and muted earth tones that eschewed both representation and expressive gesture. Based in Paris from the 1920s onward, Magnelli sustained a commitment to constructive abstraction across six decades, treating color and form as autonomous structural elements rather than vehicles for personal emotion.

Florence, Italy

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