The Frogs

The Frogs  is an enchanting lithograph realized by  Fabrizio Clerici (1913-1993) .

Hand-signed, written in pencil,  on the lower right. Acronyms "P.A", on the lower left.

The artwork represents two fantastic frogs toward the fictional world, a Surrealistic language of expression in full Clerici's style.

This artwork is in excellent condition.

Fabrizio Clerici ((1913-1993) :  Italian painter and set designer. His painting, full of artistic and literary references, is imbued with the human anxieties of that alienating and hostile twentieth century that characterized the end of the second millennium.

An artist with a complex poetics and eclectic matrix, he was also an architect, set designer, costume designer, photographer and friend of some of the most important artists, critics, musicians and writers of the twentieth century.

Clerici has obtained national and international awards for his work and has been exhibited at MOMA, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Center Pompidou in Paris, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Vatican Museums and in prestigious private and public collections.

Among his best known works are: The Minotaur publicly accuses his mother, who had deeply fascinated Salvador Dalí; Roman sleep (1955); The Confessions of Palermo (1954); Minerva phlegraea (1956-57); Le Krak des Chevaliers (1968). Alongside these, there are other works dedicated to mirages, buried cities, domestic archeology and rooms.

The latter, from the sixties, are characterized by the presence of figures from Egyptian mythology, such as the falcon god Horus and the ram sphinxes. The void, as an element and space of memory, prevails in the works of the seventies with the two famous paintings Corpus hermeticum and An instant after.