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ADOLFO MAGRINI (1874-1957) MOSTRA SEGANTINI. 1906. 80 1/4x56 5/8 inches. Dott. Chapuis, Bologna. Condition B+: restored losses and repaired tears in margins and image; minor discoloration along vertical and horizontal folds. Two sheets. Magrini was a versatile artist, who worked in areas of theatrical design, architecture and literature. Primarily an illustrator, he is known to have designed only six posters all "highly symbolic and with excellent pictorial quality" (Bolaffi p. 128). This image advertises an exhibition of the artist Giovanni Segantini (1858-1899), at a gallery in Milan. Segantini was an Italian landscape artist who did his best and most famous works in the Alps. He was extremely well regarded during his lifetime for his symbolic paintings, and "can also be considered as an innovative artist, who exerted an important influence on the development of Italian Divisionism. The Divisionism technique - fine parallel brush strokes of pure colour - was his definitive contribution to avantgarde art at the time - and the secret of the brilliant luminosity in his paintings." (www.segantini-museum.ch) There is a museum dedicated to his work in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Magrini's sublime poster is symbolic, in and of itself, with a Minotaur trying to grab a winged-allegory of a sublime Alpine vista. Manifesto 80.
