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 & 2 also.
This is part 3 of a 5-part series on the works of Mario Sironi:
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| c1924 Man and Python (drawing for a political cartoon) Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London |
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| c1932 Study for a monumental work tempera and mixed media on paper laid down on canvas 48.4 x 67.8 cm |
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| 1933 Poster of the V Triennale study pencil on paper |
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| 1933 Poster of the V Triennale, Milan |
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| 1933 Work tempera and mixed media on paper |
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| c1933 Composition. Study for a monumental work tempera and mixed media on paper 36 x 43.7 cm |
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| 1934-35 Leader on horseback mixed media on paper 288 x 275.4 cm Museo di arte moderna e contempotanea di Trento e Rovereto |
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| c1934 Woman with spade tempera on canvas 65 x 43 cm |
1935 Italy between the Arts and Sciences
This mural (fresco) forms the backdrop to the stage in the Great Hall of Sapienza University of Rome. Combining elements of both classical and modernist art, the mural depicts a central figure of Italy portrayed as a goddess at war, flanked by allegorical figures representing the arts and sciences: Astronomy, Mineralogy, Botany, Geography, Architecture, Letters, Painting, and History.
The mural went through a series of changes due to its association with fascism. In 1950, the fresco was repainted, covering up fascist symbols. A restoration project in 2015 removed the overpainting, revealing the original iconography.
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| 1935 Study for the fresco "Italy between the Arts and Sciences" tempera on paper laid down on canvas 52.7 x 72.3 cm |
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| 1935 Study for the fresco "Italy between the Arts and Sciences" |
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| Italy between the Arts and Sciences fresco |
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| 1935 Winged Victory mixed media on paper laid on canvas 18.2 x 25 cm |
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| c1935 Group of figures pencil on paper Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London |
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| 1936 The worker mixed media on construction paper mounted on canvas 325 x 202 cm |
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| 1936-38 The Empire mixed media on construction paper mounted on canvas 174 x 274 cm Romana Sironi Collection, Rome |
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| c1936 Five figures tempera on canvas 45.1 x 60.3 cm Tate Gallery, London |
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| 1937 Triumphal Arch polychrome tempera on paper 30.6 x 22.7 cm |
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| 1938 Untitled pencil and tempera on cardboard 47.6 x 38.7 cm |
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| c1938 Environment study tempera and ink on paper 31.5 x 28.3 cm |
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| c1938 Male bust pencil on paper 37.1 x 25.3 cm |
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| c1938 Seated man pencil on paper 37 x 25.6 cm |
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| c1938 Woman Sewing pencil on paper 37.7 x 25.7 cm |
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| 1939 Alpino and boat oil on paper 32 x 25 cm Museo Maga, Gallarate, Italy |
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| c1939 Composition with figure tempera and mixed media on paper laid down on canvas 56.3 x 28.3 cm |
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| c1939 Sketch for a project tempera on paper 14.8 x 17.4 cm |
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| before 1940 Two figures pencil on paper laid on canvas 28.5 x 41 cm |
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| 1940 Figure tempera on paper laid on canvas 30 x 40 cm |
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| 1940 Landscape with church pencil, black ink and black bold on paper 28 x 40 cm |
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| 1940 Monk's head oil on canvas 31.1 x 22.9 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA |
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| 1940 Mountains oil on cardboard 27 x 34 cm |
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| 1940 Two soldiers and a female figure tempera and pencil on paper 21 x 30.8 cm |
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| 1940-45 Two figures pencil and crayon on wove paper laid on canvas 29 x 41 cm |
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| 1940-50 Figures tempera on paper 32 x 23 cm |
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| c1940 Composition with horse tempera on cardboard 25 x 24.4 cm |
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| 1940c Landscape oil on board 23 x 37.9 cm |
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| c1940 Two studies for a figure from the relief "Il Popolo Italiano" from the Palazzo del Popolo d'Italia pencil on card 20.6 x 21 cm |
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| early 1940s Landscape with trees and mountains oil and tempera on paper laid on masonite 43.3 x 64.5 cm |
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| late 1940s Mountain oil on canvas 17.4 x 27.8 cm |
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| 1941 Composition with architectural friezes mixed media on paper laid on canvas 46.7 x 54.2 cm |
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| c1941 Multiplication oil on canvas 56.2 x 80 cm Moma, New York |
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| 1942 Figure with a corpse gouache on paper 26 x 41.4 cm |
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| 1942 The Dream magazine illustration mixed media on cardboard 23.3 x 28 cm |
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| c1942 Composition with two figures tempera and mixed media on cardboard 11.7 x 10 cm |
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| c1943 Composition pencil and cardboard on paper 34 x 48.5 cm |
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| c1944 Reclining nude with tree oil and tempera on paper laid on canvas |
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| c1945 Mountains tempera and mixed media on paper laid down on canvas 28.2 x 43.5 cm |
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| 1946-47 White Nude tempera BiancoMuseo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Varese VA, Italy |
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