Modern Painting Drawing Signed Augusto Colombo Charcoal Italy 1943 - Study of a Figure 1943

Features

Artist:  Augusto Colombo (1902-1969)

Artwork title:  Studio preparatorio di figura

Age:  20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject:  Sketch

Artistic technique:  Drawing

Technical specification:  Charcoal

Description : Studio preparatorio di figura

Charcoal on rough white paper. At the bottom right the artist's initials and the date 9-V-943. On the back there is a paper label with the data of the work. This is a preparatory sketch for a figure from the composition "The Wedding at Cana", created in the same year. Painter, art teacher, exponent of twentieth-century Italian figurative painting, as well as a militant anti-fascist (he was a partisan), Augusto Colombo during the years of the Second World War executed a series of works depicting the horrors of war, but also various sacred subjects. In Colombo the rejection of the post-impressionist tradition was total, as he designed each painting as a story, constructed by the composition of gestures and details, but without losing synthesis. His stylistic choice favored the large composition, where the human architecture builds, gradually, the larger architecture of the story. The sketch proposed here emphasizes the vigor of the figures painted by Augusto Colombo, where the physical structure underlines and highlights the gesture. The drawing is presented in a frame.

Product Condition:
Product in good condition, shows small signs of wear. We try to present the real condition as completely as possible with the photos. If some details are not clear from the photos, what is reported in the description is valid.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 52
Width: 62
Depth: 1,5

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 28
Width: 48