Gino Severini Original Signed and No. Lithograph

Arlecchino e Pedrolino, 1963-4, lithograph, 30x22" (76x56cm), edition 120, signed in English and numbered in pencil.
Print is in good condition and is unframed. Print has a back seal of "L'oeuvere Grave," the print workshop where this print was made.
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Gino Severini (1883-1966) was born in 1883 in Italy. He began his studies in Rome and first went to Paris in 1906. He was an original signatory of the Futurist Manifesto and after joining the cubists he wrote many books on art theory. He was introduced to Seurat's divisionist technique at Giacomo Balla's studio. His admiration and respect for Seurat's theories were likely part of his motivation to move to Paris in 1906.
It is in Paris that Severini explored the divisionist technique while aligning himself with the emerging cubist movement. His cubist work gradually evolved into Futurism. In 1910, Severini joined fellow Italian artists Boccioni, Balla, Carra and Russolo in signing the first "Manifesto of Futurist Painters". This group stressed the dynamism of motion, which the artists attempted to capture by painting moving parts simultaneously in multiple positions.
Between 1910 and 1914, Severini devoted himself entirely to the Futurist cause, playing a determining role in the definition of its style. His work, on the whole, remained much more closely influenced by the cubists than by that of his fellow Futurists, who concentrated more on the machine as a subject. His decorative interpretation of Picasso's Synthetic Cubism reached its zenith in 1915, a time at which figures from the Commedia dell'Arte had become popular subjects for those exploring Cubist theories.

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