Etching printed in black on sturdy, cream wove paper, 1940. 137x200 mm; 5 1/2x8 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 4/6 in pencil, lower margin. A superb impression of this very scarce, early etching.
This etching, amoung the earliest in Manzù's œuvre, is a precursor to his most important religious sculpture; a series of bas-reliefs for the Porte della Morte (Door of the Dead) St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, 1952-64.
