After Gino Severini

Gino Severini (Italian, 1883-1966) painter, graphic artist, sculptor and writer.

• Sold as a set of 6.
• Six stencil pochoir plates colored, some heightened with gold by Jean Saudé.
• Printed in Paris under the supervision of Severini, from an edition limited to 125 numbered copies.
• One of the most remarkable pochoir books, a superb depiction of cubist still life, harlequin musicians, and the masks and theatrics of the Commedia Dell'Arte.
• Despite abandoning cubism in his paintings in the early 1920s, Severini continued to use cubist elements in his decorative and graphic illustrations.
• The topics typical of Severini's 1920s neo-cubist style was still life with musical instruments, fruit, masks and family, which became the index for Fleurs et Masques.
• The Fleurs et Masques are whimsical, almost resembling playing cards but at the same time sacred and profane.
• Between 1924 and 1935 Severini was commissioned with numerous murals and mosaics, and published theoretical texts and books on art.
• Awarded the Grand Prize of the Biennale in Venice in 1950.
• Framed and glazed.