Military

" Military " is a beautiful print in the etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955) .

Hand-signed in pencil on th lower right. Numbered on the lower left, edition of 18/100 prints.

Good conditions, except for some small foxing in the frame part of the artwork which do not affect the image.

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.

The artwork represents a group of military with their bikes through confident strokes. The artist 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.