Montale, Eugenio. (1896–1981). "Lago con cigni," 1950.
Pastels on card. Drawn on the verso of a typewritten menu dated May 17, 1950. Signed in yellow pastel lr "M / 1950." Fine. 11.8 x 8.5 inches (30.3 x 21.5 cm).
The Italian writer, editor and translator Eugenio Montale is widely considered one of the greatest Italian lyric poets, and was the recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was also the creator of a large body of visual artworks, largely understudied today, produced between the mid-1940s and the 1970s. Nicola Lucchi writes that Montale's visual artworks "constitute a direct intervention in the postwar cultural debate over the role of the author and the validity of traditional literary and visual languages." ("Painting against the grid: Eugenio Montale's confrontation with the visual arts, in The Italianist, Vol. 36, 2016).
Montale, Eugenio. (1896–1981). "Lago con cigni," 1950.
Pastels on card. Drawn on the verso of a typewritten menu dated May 17, 1950. Signed in yellow pastel lr "M / 1950." Fine. 11.8 x 8.5 inches (30.3 x 21.5 cm).
The Italian writer, editor and translator Eugenio Montale is widely considered one of the greatest Italian lyric poets, and was the recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was also the creator of a large body of visual artworks, largely understudied today, produced between the mid-1940s and the 1970s. Nicola Lucchi writes that Montale's visual artworks "constitute a direct intervention in the postwar cultural debate over the role of the author and the validity of traditional literary and visual languages." ("Painting against the grid: Eugenio Montale's confrontation with the visual arts, in The Italianist, Vol. 36, 2016).