Verona

" Verona " is a beautiful print in the lithography technique, realized in 1917 by  Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955) .

In very good conditions.

The artwork represents a landscape of Verona in Italy, and the Verona Arena site in the background which is a Roman amphitheater located in the historic center of Verona, an icon of the Venetian city together with the figures of Romeo and Juliet, through confident and quick brownish colors.  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 the war scenery and preparation of the military with their cars, through quick and 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.