Model

Model is a beautiful black and white lithograph on paper, realized by the Italian artist  Alberto Salietti (Ravenna, 1882 - Chiavari, 1961) and published by Le Edizioni del Poligono, Milan, in 1930.

Hand-signed in pencil on the lower margin.  Signed and dated on plate, our specimen is unnumbered and in perfect conditions, representing with big volumes a seated model portrayed in a classical key with drapery.

Alberto Salietti (Ravenna, 1892 - Chiavari, 1961)

Despite having played almost the totality of his artistic career in Milan and Liguria, Alberto Salietti - painter, engraver, mosaicist and fresco painter - has remained a reference point for Romagna painters, especially between the two wars. After moving with his family to Milan, Salietti attended the Brera Academy until 1914. In 1920, he exhibited at the Venice Biennial and in 1922 in Milan with Oppi, Dudreville, Tosi and Malerba. After the Venice Biennial of 1924, he joined the Novecento movement of which he became the secretary in 1925. In 1926, he exhibited at the "First exhibition of the Italian twentieth century" and, in 1927, he was among the founders of the "Group of seven modern painters" together with Funi, Sironi, Tosi, Carrà, Marussig and Bernasconi.

In 1929, he exhibited in Barcelona; in 1937, in Paris; then at the II and III Quadrennial of Rome and at the Venice Biennial of 1942, where he won the Grand Prize for painting. In 1933, he was appointed corresponding member of the " Wiener Secession ", and from 1933 to 1936 he was a member of the Superior Council for Antiquities and Fine Arts in Rome. In 1941, he moved permanently to Chiavari, frequented since the 1920s. The most important posthumous exhibitions include the one held at the Permanente in Milan in 1964 and in Chiavari in 1972. As a portraitist and landscape painter, Salietti - a patient distiller of post-impressionist, secessionist and twentieth-century influences - has made an original contribution to Italian art between the two wars, distinguishing itself with a joyful and optimistic adherence to reality, immune from intellectualism, ideologies and excessive formal forcing.