Title: Arising.
Artist: Alessandro Mastro-Valerio (1889-1953)
Mezzotint, 1942.
Edition 200.
Signed in pencil. Still in the original presentation mat from the Miniature Print Collectors Society and includes the associated text sheet.
Issued by the Miniature Print Collectors Society.
Image size 2 3/8 x 2 7/8" (6 x 7.5 cm).

This is Mastro-Valerio's first published mezzotint.

Alessandro Mastro-Valerio was an Italian-American artist. He is perhaps best known for his mezzotints and female nudes. Mastro-Valerio immigrated to the United States in 1913, where he lived and worked as a commercial artist in Chicago for a time. By 1919, he moved to Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he worked as an art professor at Ypsilanti Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University) and the University of Michigan.

Condition: Very good condition. No tears or stains.