Emilio Greco

(Catania, 1913 - Roma, 1995)

Signed. Exemplary 8 out of 10. Considered a unique work. International recognition for the artist came at the 1956 Venice Biennale with the Grand Prize for Sculpture, his drawings and sculptures reflect an ideal of beauty which through rounded, elongated and well-endowed forms harks back to an archaic mannerism of the School of Fontainebleau. His point of reference can be considered the sculptor Pericle Fazzini. In his graphics, perfect formal synthesis, clear, elegant and decisive we find the essence of everything that is created 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. Baptist in Campi Byzantium. Present in numerous museums: Tate Gallery – London; Hermitage – St. Petersburg; Pushkin Museum – Moscow; Hakone Open-Air Museum- Japan; Vatican Museums – Rome.