Untitled from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso)

Giacomo ManzùWW-1973-M052352

1973·Etching and aquatint from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts·plate: 24 11/16 x 18 7/8" (62.7 x 47.9cm); sheet: 30 11/16 x 22 15/16" (78 x 58.2cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1973
Medium: Etching and aquatint from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts
Dimensions: plate: 24 11/16 x 18 7/8" (62.7 x 47.9cm); sheet: 30 11/16 x 22 15/16" (78 x 58.2cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Giacomo Manzù

Artist

Giacomo Manzù

Printmaking

Giacomo Manzù was an Italian sculptor known for cast bronze reliefs and freestanding figures that combined classical figuration with modernist reduction. Working primarily in bronze, his forms distilled the human body to essential gestures and planes, often addressing religious and humanistic themes. His practice emerged in the postwar period and sustained a commitment to narrative clarity and tactile surface without rejecting abstraction entirely.

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