Artist and Model - SOLD

Artist and Model is a beautiful black and white etching and drypoint on paper, realized around Seventies by the Italian artist Gabriel Girardi (Turin, 1938).

Hand-signed in pencil  by the artist on the lower right margin. 

Hand-numbered in Roman numerals and in pencil, this is an artist's proof from twenty-five specimens. 

With incredible full hatching, the artist portrays himself painting a lying down female nude, doing the meta-art.

In very good conditions, except a yellowing of the paper and light foxing along the margins.

Including a white cardboard passepartout, cm 36 x 44.5

Gabriel Girardi (Turin, 1938)
Son of Nardo Girardi, known painter of the group "Decalage", Gabriel Girardi is a skilled draftsman.
In the fifties he was called to portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of England. Currently his artwork is held in Kensington Palace, a property of the princess Alessandra di Kent and reflects that spontaneity, constructive firmness and drawing energy,
typical costants in his production.
From 1959 to 1961 he devoted himself to sacred art, without leaving out profane themes.
An exciting and very valid experience will then be the one in direct contact with nature, in an island of nudists: rejoining the best Italian tradition.