Monday 6 May 2024

Mario Sironi - part 4

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 see part 1, and for earlier works by Mario Sironi, see parts 1 - 3 also.


This is part 4 of a 5-part series on the works of Mario Sironi:


1947 Composition 
oil on paper laid down on canvas 101 x 81 cm

c1947 Bust of a grotesque figure
mixed media on paper laid down on canvas 19.5 x 16.8 cm

c1947 Great composition
tempera and oil on canvas 121 x 164 cm
Boschi di Stefano Home-Museum, Milan

c1947 Landscape with mountains
pencil on paper 16.7 x 22.2 cm

c1947 Statues in niches
oil on cardboard 49.5 x 61 cm

1948 Child
mixed media on paper laid down on hardboard
(size not given)

1948 Composition
tempera on cardboard 30 x 24.5 cm

1948 Studies for Three Figures
pen and watercolour on paper 12.9 x 22 cm

1948-50 Interior with figures
tempera on cardboard 45 x 64 cm

1949 Composition
oil on board 80 x 60 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL 

1949 Composition
tempera and mixed media on paper laid on canvas 33.5 x 55 cm

1949 Composition with figures
mixed media on paper 31.5 x 26.5 cm

c1949 Composition with figures, horse and rider
mixed media on paper 27.7 x 30 cm

1950 Composition with Knight
tempera on paper laid down on cardboard 21.3 x 50.9 cm

c1950 Composition
black ink, brown wash, black chalk 24 x 33.6 cm

c1950 Composition
oil and pencil on paper laid down on canvas 39.7 x 49.7 cm

c1950 Landscape with trees and house
tempera and mixed media on paper laid down on canvas 29 x 41 cm

1950s Archaic landscape
mixed media on paper (size not given)

1950s Composition
 China ink and tempera on paper laid on cardboard 20.5 x 50.5 cm

1950s Composition
tempera and mixed media on paper laid down on canvas
23.5 x 36.2 cm

1950s Composition with bottles
tempera, ink and graphite on paper 32 x 44 cm

1950s Composition with figures
tempera and ink on paper laid on canvas 36.3 x 52.5 cm

1950s Composition with two figures
mixed media on paper laid on canvas 48 x 32 cm

1950s Female figure
tempera and mixed media on paper

1950s Seated female figure
 tempera and mixed media on paper laid on canvas 28 x 20 cm

1950s Seated Woman
 pencil on paper (size not given)

c1951 Landscape with mountains
tempera, ink and pencil on paper laid on canvas 25 x 35 cm

1952 Mountains
tempera on canvassed paper 22 x 29 cm

c1952 Composition with mountains and trees
tempera and mixed media on paper 30 x 49 cm

c1952 Composition with rock and tree
tempera and mixed media on paper laid down on canvas
20.9 x 29.5 cm

1953-54 Composition
oil on canvas 90 x 100 cm

c1953 Alpine Landscape
oil on canvas 50 x 60 cm

c1953 Composition - characters
oil on canvas 89.8 x 110 cm

1954 FIAT 1900 A
advertisement

c1954 Head
tempera and mixed media on paper 47.7 x 33.2 cm

1955-57 Composition
oil on canvas 100 x 70.3 cm

c1955 Composition
tempera and mixed media on paper 35 x 38.8 cm

c1955 Composition
tempera on paper laid down on canvas 53 x 70 cm

c1955 Composition with figures of musicians, female head and bust
mixed media on paper 32.2 x 43.5 cm

c1956 Two figures
oil, tempera and pencil on paper laid down on canvas 53 x 30.5 cm

c1958 Composition
oil on canvas 40 x 49.8 cm

c1958 Composition with female nude
oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm

c1960 Composition
tempera and mixed media on paper 34.5 x 48.2 cm

1961 Europe, here is the enemy
pencil and ink on paper 38 x 35 cm


Note: Dates were not found for the remaining works in this series. All works pre-date 1961, the year Sironi died:

n.d. Allegory of politics
mixed media on paper 32 x 43 cm

n.d. Composition
mixed media on paper 35 x 22 cm

n.d. Composition
tempera on cardboard 29 x 39 cm

n.d. Composition with boat and figures
tempera and mixed media on paper laid down on canvas
34.5 x 51.5 cm

 

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