Mario Sironi (1885-1961) - Studio di teste

The drawing is original and cataloged in the Mario Sironi Archive of Romana Sironi and authenticated by the heiress Romana Sironi.
The Archive can be consulted at the web address: http://www.archiviomariosironi.it/
Biography of Mario Sironi: http://www.archiviomariosironi.it/mario-sironi/biografia/

The drawing shows Sironi's unmistakable monumental and tragic style from the period 1933-1935.
The strongly geometric left-profile head, thrown back, directly recalls the iconography of his great frescoes and reliefs from the fascist era, while the two central front-facing heads and the right one accentuate the expressiveness typical of Sironi's charcoal drawing.

The composition with three distinct subjects arranged horizontally on a sheet of 31.5 cm makes the work visually balanced, clean, and of great collecting impact, placing it in the upper range of quotations for drawings of this format.