Emilio Greco

(Catania, 1913 - Roma, 1995)

Signed. Copy 8 out of 10. To be considered a single work. The international recognition for the artist came at the Venice Biennale in 1956 with the Grand Prize for Sculpture, his drawings and sculptures reflect an ideal of beauty that through turned, elongated and well-supplied shapes bring back to an archaic mannerism. of the School of Fontainebleau. His reference point can be considered the sculptor Pericle Fazzini.In his graphics, a perfect formal synthesis, clear, elegant and decisive, we find the essence of everything that is made in plastic forms, full of bronze, the woman's body constitutes its constant inspiration, in all his figurations.His creative wisdom, however, is applied to numerous other works, such as the monument to Pinocchio in Collodi, the doors of the Cathedral of Orvieto, and the Bas-reliefs for the church of S.G. Battista in Campi Bisanzio. Present in numerous museums: Tate Gallery - London; Hermitage - St. Petersburg; Pushkin Museum - Moscow; Hakone Open-Air Museum - Japan; Vatican Museums - Rome.