Plate (page 33) from L'albero poeta

Francesco SomainiWW-1966-M008707

1966·Soft ground etching and embossing from an illustrated book with ten prints·plate: 12 1/8 × 7 13/16" (30.8 × 19.8 cm); sheet: 16 1/8 × 9 13/16" (41 × 25 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1966
Medium: Soft ground etching and embossing from an illustrated book with ten prints
Dimensions: plate: 12 1/8 × 7 13/16" (30.8 × 19.8 cm); sheet: 16 1/8 × 9 13/16" (41 × 25 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Francesco Somaini

Artist

Francesco Somaini

Sculpture

Francesco Somaini was an Italian sculptor whose abstract forms emerged from the postwar reconstruction of European modernism. Working primarily in bronze and stone, he developed a vocabulary of interlocking geometric and organic shapes that engaged with both constructivism and abstraction. Active from the 1950s onward, Somaini's practice bridged rationalist sculptural principles with a sensibility attuned to material presence and spatial intervention.

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