Drawing by Tonino Cragnolini 1987

Features

Artist:  Tonino Cragnolini (1937-2014)

Age:  Contemporary

Subject:  Surreal images

Origin:  Italy

Artistic technique:  Drawing

Technical specification:  Mixed Technique

Description

Mixed media on paper. Signed and dated 1987 lower right. Draftsman, engraver and painter, belonging to the circle of Friulian artists of the Second World War, Tonino Cragnolini was a narrator of "civil" stories, that is centered on the theme of human coexistence, its inevitability and its often terrible events. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice where he followed. He has set up personal exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in many Italian and foreign cities, including Milan, Ferrara, Geneva, Augusta, Barcelona, Klagenfurt, as well as, of course, in many galleries and spaces in his region. He very often assumed the themes of his works from literature (Beckett, Swift, Nievo), but above all from the history of Friuli, from which he drew for various cycles, including "Zoiba Grassa 1511, una storia friulana" (1987) and "Conspiracy, murder, contempt: Bertrand of Saint Geniès, Patriarch of Aquileia" (1992); through these “tales”, often composed of many tables both drawn and engraved, Cragnolini wanted to reflect with desolate insistence on the contradictions and ferocity of human behavior. The drawing proposed here, of an absolutely fantastic character, shows figures partly human and partly animals fighting while circling above a stone city; pastel colors enhance the unreal and fantastic dimension. The work is presented in a frame.

Product Condition:
Product in very good condition which may show slight traces of wear; it may have undergone restoration work carried out by an expert.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 97
Width: 74,5
Depth: 2

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 73
Width: 51