Mario Sironi - part 2

Mario Sironi (1885-1961) was an Italian Modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterised by massive, immobile forms. In 1922 he was one of the founding members of the Sette di Novecento in Milan and became the leading exponent of the Novecento italiano. Sironi was the chief political caricaturist and illustrator for Mussolini’s official press, Il Popolo d’Italia (1927–33) and La Rivista Illustrata del Popolo d’Italia (1934–39). He authored the influential Manifesto of Mural Painting in 1933. After World War II he returned to easel painting in a style consistent with the abstract Informel movement. In 1956 he was elected member of the Accademia di San Luca. Sironi died in Milan on 13 August 1961. 

For a more comprehensive biography, and for earlier works by Mario Sironi, see part 1 also.

This is part 2 of a 5-part series on the works of Mario Sironi: 

c1924 Urban Landscape
oil on paper mounted on board  27.7 x 40 cm
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London

c1924 Urban Landscape with Railway Worker
oil on paper laid on board 54.4 x 51.7 cm

1925 Figure in Interior
pencil on paper 13.7 x 11 cm

1925 Study for an illustration of Massimo Bontempelli's short story "Oggi"
pencil on paper 13.1 x 11.8 cm

1925-26 Solitudine
oil on canvas 98 x 82 cm
National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome

c1925-30 Bust of a young boy
oil on canvas laid doen on cardboard 59 x 48 cm
Boschi di Stefano Home-Museum, Milan

c1925 Female figure and building
pencil and tempera on paper 25.1 x 22.4 cm

c1925 Figure
tempera and mixed media on paper 31.3 x 22.4 cm

c1925 Fisherman 
pencil on paper 30.5 x 24.5 cm

c1925 Sitting figure
 ink and diluted ink on paper laid on canvas 23 x 15 cm

1926 Head of a man and architecture
pencil and graphite on paper 16.3 x 12.6 cm

1926 Il Gigante dell' Aria (The Air Giant)

1926 Il Gigante dell' Aria (The Air Giant)

c1926-27 Houses and Bell Tower
tempera and mixed media on paper 19.3 x 21.8 cm

c1926 Composition with female figure
 pencil and tempera on paper laid down on canvas 24.5 x 18.6 cm

c1926 Figure
tempera on paper laid on cardboard 17.3 x 12.6 cm

c1926 Study for an illustration
tempera and mixed media on paper laid on canvas 50.4 x 35 cm

c1926 Study for an unfinished poster for the ‘Mostra del Novecento Italiano’ (Italian Twentieth Century Exhibition)
ink and diluted ink on paper 31.6 x 26 cm

c1926 Trees, figure and house
tempera on paper 18.8 x 21.6 cm

1927 Female Nude
mixed media on paper 44 x 33 cm

1927 Illustration of the novella "The puppets and Marilù" by Rodolfo Cazzaniga
tempera and mixed media on paper laid on canvas 24.6 x 34.7 cm

1927 The Family
oil on canvas 97 x 73 cm
Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali
(Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage)

c1927 Figure
pencil on paper 27.7 x 20.6 cm

c1927 Head of a horse
pencil and gouache on cardboard 19.3 x 19.2 cm

c1927 Landscape with figure, tree, rocks and air balloon
pencil on paper 18.3 x 14.4 cm

c1927 Nude study
 pencil on paper laid down on canvas 26 x 18 cm

c1927 Urban landscape
oil on canvas 52 x 54.5 cm
Private Collection

1928 Landscape with houses
mixed media on paper laid on canvas 34.5 x 30.4 cm

1928 Study
tempera on paper 12 x 13 cm

1928 Paesaggio urbano (Urban landscape)
oil on masonite 40 x 58 cm
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin

c1928-29 Study of a female nude
pencil on paper 23.7 x 19 cm

c1928 Mountains
oil on canvas 81.9 x 107.9 cm
Tate Gallery, London

c1928 Nude woman seen from the back
ink on paper 28.9 x 21 cm

1929 Sketch for the illustration 'Subscribe!' published in
'Il Popolo d'Italia'
tempera and mixed media on paper laid on canvas 44.4 x 29.4 cm

1929-30 Composition
tempera and mixed media on paper laid on canvas 24 x 22.5 cm

1930 Composition with landscape, tree and figures
pencil on paper 16.7 x 24.5 cm

1930 Study for monumental composition
pencil on paper 26.6 x 31.4 cm

c1930 Nude
pencil on paper

c1930 Portrait
oil on board 50 x 40 cm

late 1930s Mountain
tempera and pencil on paper

1931 Untitled (Man opening a Door)
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London

c1931 Composition with figure
tempera on paper on cardboard 55.2 x 54.9 cm

1932 Exposicion de la  Revolucion Fascista
colour lithograph poster

1932 Original plate of the illustration of the novel "Sprechen sie deutsch" by Arrigo de Angelis
mixed media on cardboard 23.5 x 27.3 cm

c1932 Knight
India ink on paper 19 x 32.6 cm

1934 Edizione del Pomeriggio L'Ambrosiano
colour lithograph poster