Emilio Greco

(Catania, 1913 - Roma, 1995)

Signed. Copy 8 out of 10. Considered a unique work. The artist achieved international recognition at the Venice Biennale in 1956 with the Grand Prize for Sculpture. His drawings and sculptures reflect an ideal of beauty that, through rounded, elongated and well-stocked forms, hark back to an archaic mannerism of the Fontainebleau School. His point of reference 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 created in the plastic forms, full of bronze. The woman's body constitutes his 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 SG 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.