black and white print depicting images of houses and buildings with alternating lighted and darkened windows; thin vernicle lines scattered across facade of image

%C2%A9 Mario Avati %2F Artists Rights Society %28ARS%29%2C New York

Facades, 1958

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Mario Avati was born in Monaco and active in Paris. He devoted himself almost exclusively to the art of mezzotint, helping to keep alive this technique, which had gone out of fashion in the early twentieth century. The active patterning of this nocturnal cityscape creates spatial ambiguity. It borrows from Cubism, an art form that presents the viewer with multiple points of view simultaneously.

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Title
Facades
Artist Life
(born Monaco), 1921–2009
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2016.112.1
Provenance
The artist’s estate, Paris; his wife; Muriel Sterne, (her sister), Minnetonka, MN
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black and white print depicting images of houses and buildings with alternating lighted and darkened windows; thin vernicle lines scattered across facade of image

© Mario Avati / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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