Marcello TOMMASI, GRAPHICS

Illustrations to Ovid and Apuleius
Color lithographs (5 pieces 75 x 55 cm, 3 pieces 66 x 50 cm, 26 pieces 56 x 38 cm), one aquatint 25 x 19.2 cm
Signed in pencil: Marcello Tommasi, part numbered or marked E A
And 8 pages (2 sheets) of illustrated Ovid's Metamorphoses with dedication in pencil : a Madame Remy con molta (...) e simpatia (...) Marcello Tommasi Parigi 29 Novembre 1974
Asking price 2000
Estimate 4000 - 5000

Marcello TOMMASI
1928 Pietrasanta - 2008 Lido di CamaioreItalian sculptor and painter active mainly in Florence, Paris and Pietrasanta, considered a "symbolic heir of 15th century Neoplatonism. Born into an artistic family (he was the son of sculptor Leone Tommasi and brother of painter Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni), he graduated with a degree in literature from the University of Florence, earning a doctorate in art history in 1966. From 1948 to 1958 he frequented Pietro Annigoni's studio, drawing, painting and sculpting. A master of figurative art, he dealt extensively with both sacred and secular art, often drawing inspiration from Greek myths. His vast oeuvre includes hundreds of works, including drawings, sketches, sculptures, paintings and frescoes.