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Luigi Russolo (1885-1947)

Professions: Painter; Etcher

  • Luigi Russolo (1885-1947)

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  • LUIGI ROSSOLO Nocturne landscape on board signed 23 x 29cm. * This lot is accompanied by a book; RUSSOLO.L, L'Arte dei Rumori and a biography.

  • LUIGI RUSSOLO 'Tetti'; 'Savoro' a pair etchings both signed and inscribed in pencil image sizes 15 x 7cm; 14 x 9.5cm.

Luigi Russolo Biography

(b Portogruaro, Venice, 7 May 1885; d Cerro di Laveno, Lake Maggiore, 4 Feb 1947). Italian painter, printmaker, writer and composer. The fourth of five children, he was trained in music by his father, who was a clockmaker and organist. In 1901 he went to Milan to join his family, who had moved there so that his two brothers, Giovanni and Antonio, could study music at the conservatory. Diverging from his father’s inclinations, Luigi was attracted towards other forms of art, especially painting. Though not actually enrolled at the Accademia di Brera, through new friends he indirectly followed the ideas taught there. In the same period he worked for the restorer Crivelli in Milan, serving his apprenticeship working on the interior decorations of the Castello Sforzesco and on Leonardo’s Last Supper in the refectory of S Maria delle Grazie. In December 1909 he took part in the exhibition Bianco e nero at the Famiglia Artistica in Milan, contributing a series of etchings, made during the preceding year, which show a definite leaning towards Symbolist forms and images. The undulating quality of the line in such etchings as his portrait of Nietzsche (c . 1909; Milan, Gal. A. Mod.), which seems to translate a musical rhythm into visual form through a strong, enveloping sign, remained a distinctive and individual feature of Russolo’s work and poetics, especially in his Futurist work.

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  • LUIGI RUSSOLO 'Citta addormentata' etching signed and inscribed in pencil image size 16.5 x 25cm., Luigi Russolo, Click for value View Details
  • LUIGI RUSSOLO 'Il Mattino' etching signed and inscribed in pencil image size 20 x 25cm., Luigi Russolo, Click for value View Details
  • Luigi Russolo (1885-1947, Italian) Il mattino etching signed and inscribed as titled in pencil in the margin image 20 x 25cm., Luigi Russolo, Click for value View Details
  • Luigi Russolo (1885-1947, Italian) Citta addormentata etching signed and inscribed as titled in pencil in the margin image 16.5 x 25cm., Luigi Russolo, Click for value View Details
  • Luigi Russolo (1885-1947, Italian) Quiete; Fatterie etchings, two one inscribed as titled, one signed and inscribed as titled in pencil in the margin images 10.5 x 19cm.; 6.5 x 9cm., unframed (2), Luigi Russolo, Click for value View Details
  • LUIGI RUSSOLO, Luigi Russolo, Click for value View Details

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