La Belle Africaine Au Cirque Ugo Attardi 1978 Italian School

Superb lithograph of very good quality, it looks like a drawing. Edition stamp 98/99 dates from 1978. Ugo Attardi was born in 1932 in Sori near Genoa. Hunted by fascism, his trade unionist father is forced to flee to Sicily. His family later settled in Palermo where he studied fine arts for a year. He then decided to settle in Rome, where he began to paint. In 1948, he created the Marxist abstract art movement “Forma Uno”, with other artists such as Piero Dorazio and M. Guerrini. This short-term experience allows him to allow himself a period of research necessary for his work. During the 1950s, he participated twice in the Venice Biennale and exhibited in Rome. It was during this period that he began his work as an engraver; he quickly became one of the most significant Italian engravers of his time thanks to his perfect mastery of drawing. In 1965, he participated in the Figuration Narrative exhibition in Paris. A multidisciplinary artist, he also devoted himself to sculpture and literature; in the latter field, he won - from his first novel - the Viareggio prize in 1971. Ugo Attardi died in 2006 in Rome.