Sixty Works by Modern Masters - Flipbook - Page 79
Marino Marini
Marino Marini
Italian, 1901 - 1980
Cavallo e Cavaliere, 1952
Gouache, watercolour and pen and ink on paper
24 x 16 inches / 62 x 43 cm
Signed and dated lower right: Marino 1952
Throughout his career, Italian painter
and sculptor Marino Marini focused
on the horse and rider theme, which
he endowed with both timeless and
modern flavours. The monumental
spirit of Marini’s horse and rider
subjects pays homage to a form
of traditional public sculpture
dating from classical antiquity, yet
his imagery is formulated using
techniques that drive it towards
abstraction.
The present work is a particularly
expressive example of Marini’s
theme, in which vibrant pigments
are very loosely applied. A lack of
figurative detail serves to emphasise
the symbolic power of the figures,
whose triumphant or fragile poses
in Marini’s wider oeuvre came to
represent the artist’s feelings about
the future of the modern world.
Provenance
Anon. sale, Paris, Pierre Bergé & Associés, 10 December 2002, lot 49
Purchased at the above sale by the previous owner
This painting is accompanied by a
certificate of authentication kindly
issued by la Fondazione Marino Marini
"The relationship between my painting
and my sculpture is intimately connected.
I would never begin a sculpture without
first experiencing colour."
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