GALLIANO MAZZON : Abstract composition (Arte concreta, plate 15), 1949

By MAZZON Galliano

Galliano Mazzon (1896–1978)
Abstract composition (Arte concreta, plate 15), 1949
Arte concreta, 4th portfolio — Milan, Salto Editore, October 1949

Original colour lithograph on paper

Signed in the stone

Dimensions: Unfolded sheet 32.5 × 44 cm (12.8 × 17.3 in.) — Image 21.5 × 22 cm (8.5 × 8.7 in.)

Condition: Good condition, a few scattered foxing spots. Unframed.

Published in an edition of 250 numbered copies, with a text by Giulio Carlo Argan. This copy is numbered 152/250.

A copy of the portfolio’s justification page (edition statement) will be provided on request.

Mazzon, who lost his right hand in the First World War and painted with his left, came to the MAC from the abstractionist circle of the Galleria del Milione.

References: Maffei, M.A.C. Movimento Arte Concreta. L’opera editoriale, Milano, Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004. British Museum, London, inv. 1989,0722.3.15.