Armando Donna - Surrealistische - beperkte oplage - Ets - "Dorpstraat bij avond" gesigneerd - Verkocht

• Een in de jaren 50 (1954)  door de Italiaanse graficus armando Donna (1913-1994) gemaakte Ets. Het 5e exemplaar van een oplage van  in totaal 100 op dik papier. Verkeert in zeer goede , scherpe staat. Potloodgesigneerd en genummerd. Beeldmaat 22x28cm (HxB). Bladmaat 39x50cm.

Armando Donna (1913-1994)
Printmaker; specialised in engraving. Born in Vercelli, Donna was largely self- taught as a printmaker, though he took a diploma at the local Istituto di Belle Arte. He was advised to take up etching by Enzo Gazzone. He studied the intaglio prints of Mantegna, Marcantonio Raimondi, Dürer and Rembrandt while earning a living working for a firm of silversmiths in his native town, engraving plates and various other pieces of silver. Donna learnt to engrave from reading 'Bianco e Nero', a book by Giacomo Francesco Guarnati published in 1937 while on military service during the war. He executed his first engraving in 1942 and first exhibited his prints in Vercelli in 1946. The same year he met the Gruppo Forme, the only avant-garde group of artists in this then culturally impoverished region.
In 1947 he was appointed Professor at the Istituto di Belle Arte in Vercelli where he remained on the staff for 43 years until his retirement. During his time there it became the only artistic organisation in Italy to teach engraving. Donna's individual talent was recognized by his inclusion in an important exhibition of contemporary Italian prints at the Galerie Georges Giroux in Brussels in 1951. Donna's early style derived in part from Sironi, Casorati and Morandi, but he soon evolved a very personal highly stylized manner. The predominant solitude in his twilit landscapes and townscapes creates an other worldly effect that some commentators have described as surrealistic.
(britishmuseum.org)