Nature morte aux 3 poissons - Still life with 3 fishes - SOLD

Nature morte aux 3 poissons (Still life with three fishes) is a wonderful mezzotint on paper, realized by the French artist  Mario Avati .

Belonging to the Maniera Nera  series.

Hand-numbered, titled and signed  in pencil on the lower margin by the artist. Edition of 10 prints.

On the lower left in pencil and in capital letters "avant acier". In excellent conditions, as good as new.

Passepartout included: 39 x 58 cm.

A beautiful original print, with full and deep blacks and an excellent inking: it could give to your house a touch of elegance and fineness!

Mario Avati (1921-2009) is a French painter and engraver, remembered as the foremost mezzotint artist, after Yozo Hamaguchi. After attending the National School of Decorative Arts in Nice and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Mario Avati practiced, from 1947, all printmaking techniques, contributing to the revival of graphic techniques as popular artists' media.

His favorite graphic technique, applied to his timeless still lifes, is the mezzotint, among the most demanding, abandoned because it was "too difficult", but with the final result of an emerging image from a deep black "nothingness".

Avati's international fame is confirmed by numerous awards, documentary films made in Japan, in the USA and in Europe and an uncountable number of participations in exhibitions and art events all over the world.