Nature Morte à la Fenille Timide

Nature Morte à la Fenille Timide is a wonderful mezzotint on paper, realized by the French artist and mezzotint master  Mario Avati (1921-2009).

Hand-signed, titled and numbered in pencil and in capital letters on the lower margin. Edition of 60 prints.

An original print, with a superb technique, representing a timeless and charming still life, in excellent conditions. This is the perfect piece for your elegant home furniture!

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.