Massimo Campigli (ITALIAN, 1895-1971)
La Collana I
Color lithograph on P. M. Fabriano paper
1952
Signed and dated in pencil, lower right
Numbered 61/125 in pencil, lower left
Dimensions: 14 x 20 inches (36 x 51 cm)
Full margins
Framed in wood frame
Printed by Cavallino, Venice
From La Collana
Published by NRF, Paris
Meloni/Tavola 135
Corrugated toning to sheet vertically
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"La Collana", translating to "The Necklace,” is representative of the research conducted by the artist in his approach to lithography. Similar color palettes are seen in some of his other prints, often the ones with the same publisher such as "It Diabolo", "There Trampolino" and "The Gemelle". You can see the Italian influences in the structures of both figures face and hands.

This color lithograph is on P. M. Fabriano paper and was executed in 1952. It is signed, dated and numbered 61/125 in pencil with full margins. Printed by Cavallino, Venice and published by NRF, Paris, this piece was part of the series "La Collana."

Massimo Campigli (ITALIAN, 1895-1971)

Born in Berlin as Max Ihlenfeld in 1895, Massimo Campigli spent most of his childhood in Florence but ended up in Milan. A painter and journalist he began to socialize with futuristic circles in Milan. In 1919, he went to Paris to work as foreign correspondent for the 'Corriere della Sera'. Soon he started painting and consorted with artists like Giorgio di Chirico and Gino Severini and was especially inspired by Fernand Léger's cubism. In his later works, Massimo Campigli remained bound to his motif-world full of ethereal female figures and an archaic and symbolic picture language. During the 60s his figures were reduced to colored markings in a group of almost abstract canvasses. He died of a heart attack in 1971 in Saint-Tropez.