Gualtiero Busato : Crotonesi (Women of Crotone), 1974 (Felt-tip pen)
By BUSATO Gualtiero (1941–2025)
Gualtiero Busato (1941–2025)
Crotonesi (Women of Crotone), Nice, 25 February 1974
Felt-tip pen
Titled lower left “« CROTONESI »”; dedicated, signed and dated by hand, lower right: “a mon ami Yves Guérin, con amicizia, G. Busato, Nice, 25-2-74”
Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.) — Image: the full sheet
Condition: good condition, unframed
Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance). Dated from Nice in February 1974 — precisely when Busato held a solo exhibition at the Palais de la Méditerranée in Nice, the establishment the collector directed: the album’s most direct documentary link to that venue.
Description: A vigorous felt-tip drawing of three draped figures — women of Crotone, in Calabria, wrapped in shawls and headscarves, monumental and expressive, one with an arm raised — rendered in bold, brushy black strokes with hatched modelling. Gualtiero Busato was a Franco-Italian sculptor, born at Civitavecchia in 1941, who settled in Paris and specialised in bronze; drawn to classical and poetic subjects rendered with a baroque expressivity, he was elected correspondent of the Académie des beaux-arts in 2004 and created “Les Messagers” for the Saint-Germain-des-Prés metro station. Signed, dated and dedicated by hand.
Price : 100,00 € ( 113.00 USD )
