Front Italien

Front Italien  is a beautiful print in etching on paper, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955) .

Good conditions except for some diffused foxings.

Sheet dimension: 36 x 27.5

 From the collection:  “Croquis du Front Italien”.

The artwork represents the scenery of some soldiers getting rest. The artwork is depicted skillfully through strong and confident strokes with well-balanced composition.

Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955):  Italian painter, engraver and writer, one of the initiators of the artistic movement of the twentieth century in Milan in 1922.

He took part in the Salon des Indépendants from 1910 on. He enlisted in the Volunteer Cyclist Battalion in 1915 and he became one of the most famous Italian war artists. He lives the war experience with a lot of the Futurism movement's exponents. In "Pane e Luna", his biography, he wrote: « Siamo fucilieri dell’ottavo plotone, a guardia notturna del Forte Trimellone e del lacustre Fronte. Tra noi buoni compagnoni sono i chiari Futuristi; altri oscuri per un oscuro compito ».

In the series "Croquis du Front Italien" that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were Marinetti, Boccioni and Sant'Elia.