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:
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| 1947 Composition oil on paper laid down on canvas 101 x 81 cm |
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| c1947 Bust of a grotesque figure mixed media on paper laid down on canvas 19.5 x 16.8 cm |
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| c1947 Great composition tempera and oil on canvas 121 x 164 cm Boschi di Stefano Home-Museum, Milan |
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| c1947 Landscape with mountains pencil on paper 16.7 x 22.2 cm |
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| c1947 Statues in niches oil on cardboard 49.5 x 61 cm |
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| 1948 Child mixed media on paper laid down on hardboard (size not given) |
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| 1948 Composition tempera on cardboard 30 x 24.5 cm |
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| 1948 Studies for Three Figures pen and watercolour on paper 12.9 x 22 cm |
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| 1948-50 Interior with figures tempera on cardboard 45 x 64 cm |
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| 1949 Composition oil on board 80 x 60 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1949 Composition tempera and mixed media on paper laid on canvas 33.5 x 55 cm |
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| 1949 Composition with figures mixed media on paper 31.5 x 26.5 cm |
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| c1949 Composition with figures, horse and rider mixed media on paper 27.7 x 30 cm |
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| 1950 Composition with Knight tempera on paper laid down on cardboard 21.3 x 50.9 cm |
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| c1950 Composition black ink, brown wash, black chalk 24 x 33.6 cm |
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| c1950 Composition oil and pencil on paper laid down on canvas 39.7 x 49.7 cm |
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| c1950 Landscape with trees and house tempera and mixed media on paper laid down on canvas 29 x 41 cm |
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| 1950s Archaic landscape mixed media on paper (size not given) |
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| 1950s Composition China ink and tempera on paper laid on cardboard 20.5 x 50.5 cm |
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| 1950s Composition tempera and mixed media on paper laid down on canvas 23.5 x 36.2 cm |
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| 1950s Composition with bottles tempera, ink and graphite on paper 32 x 44 cm |
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| 1950s Composition with figures tempera and ink on paper laid on canvas 36.3 x 52.5 cm |
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| 1950s Composition with two figures mixed media on paper laid on canvas 48 x 32 cm |
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| 1950s Female figure tempera and mixed media on paper |
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| 1950s Seated female figure tempera and mixed media on paper laid on canvas 28 x 20 cm |
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| 1950s Seated Woman pencil on paper (size not given) |
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| c1951 Landscape with mountains tempera, ink and pencil on paper laid on canvas 25 x 35 cm |
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| 1952 Mountains tempera on canvassed paper 22 x 29 cm |
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| c1952 Composition with mountains and trees tempera and mixed media on paper 30 x 49 cm |
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| c1952 Composition with rock and tree tempera and mixed media on paper laid down on canvas 20.9 x 29.5 cm |
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| 1953-54 Composition oil on canvas 90 x 100 cm |
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| c1953 Alpine Landscape oil on canvas 50 x 60 cm |
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| c1953 Composition - characters oil on canvas 89.8 x 110 cm |
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| 1954 FIAT 1900 A advertisement |
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| c1954 Head tempera and mixed media on paper 47.7 x 33.2 cm |
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| 1955-57 Composition oil on canvas 100 x 70.3 cm |
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| c1955 Composition tempera and mixed media on paper 35 x 38.8 cm |
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| c1955 Composition tempera on paper laid down on canvas 53 x 70 cm |
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| c1955 Composition with figures of musicians, female head and bust mixed media on paper 32.2 x 43.5 cm |
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| c1956 Two figures oil, tempera and pencil on paper laid down on canvas 53 x 30.5 cm |
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| c1958 Composition oil on canvas 40 x 49.8 cm |
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| c1958 Composition with female nude oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm |
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| c1960 Composition tempera and mixed media on paper 34.5 x 48.2 cm |
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| 1961 Europe, here is the enemy pencil and ink on paper 38 x 35 cm |
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| n.d. Allegory of politics mixed media on paper 32 x 43 cm |
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| n.d. Composition mixed media on paper 35 x 22 cm |
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| n.d. Composition tempera on cardboard 29 x 39 cm |
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| 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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