Mario Sironi - Lot with 12 books - 1946

1. Mario Sironi / Drawings (Volume I)
Title: Mario Sironi / Drawings
Subtitle/Content: Works from 1909 to 1961. Pencils, inks, tempera
Authors: Paolo Baldacci and Luigi Cavallo
Publisher: Il Disegno Italiano - Edizioni La Scaletta (San Polo di Reggio Emilia)
Year of publication: 1993
Features: Elegant hardcover volume with a white cloth binding and illustrated dust jacket; part of the prestigious art series "Itinerari" (No. 2). About 83 richly illustrated pages

2. Mario Sironi / Drawings 2
Content: Works from 1919 to 1960. Pencils, inks, pastels, watercolors, tempera
Editor/curator: Luigi Cavallo (in collaboration with Oretta Nicolini, curated by Giorgio Chierici)
Publisher: Il Disegno Italiano - Edizioni La Scaletta (Reggio Emilia)
Year of publication: 1999
Features: Hardcover binding. This second volume completes the philological study begun with the 1993 edition, presenting a corpus of about 84 pages with 18 in-text illustrations and 70 plates outside the text.

3. Mario Sironi – Limited Edition Hoepli (1946)
Title: Mario Sironi
Author of the text: Alberto Sartoris
Series: Italian Modern Art No. 18 (edited by Giovanni Scheiwiller - Series A - Painters No. 14)
Publisher: Ulrico Hoepli Editore, Milan
Year of publication: 1946
Notable features: This pocket-sized volume (about 17 cm) is a historic and sought-after limited and numbered edition limited to 2100 copies in total. Contains 35 pages of critical text and well XXXVII splendid plates illustrating the work outside the text in black and white (plus one in color on the frontispiece).

4. Mario Sironi – Marco Valsecchi (Editalia)
Title: Mario Sironi
Author: Marco Valsecchi
Publisher: Editalia, Rome
Year of publication: 1962
Features: Large-format monograph (about 31 cm) with a publisher’s cloth binding and illustrated dust jacket. Contains a rich critical apparatus and numerous color and black-and-white plates applied by hand outside the text.

5. Sironi – Drawings and Tempera (Galleria de' Serpenti)
Title: Sironi
Content: Catalogue of the drawings and tempera exhibition, characterized by the famous logo of Sironi’s urban landscape printed in red.
Publisher/Location: Galleria de' Serpenti, Rome
Year of publication: 1980
Features: Editorial soft-cover staple binding in a square format, a lean edition clearly for display and gallery purposes.

6. Mario Sironi – Exhibition Palazzo Reale (Electa)
Title: Mario Sironi
Exhibition venue: Milan, Palazzo Reale (February / March 1973)
Organization: City of Milan / Department of Culture, Tourism, Show
Publisher: Electa Editrice, Milan
Year of publication: 1973
Features: A historical catalog of the great Milanese retrospective. Square format typical of Electa art editions of the era, flexible color-illustrated cover with a famous Sironi “Urban Landscape with Chimney.” About 170 pages.

7. Sironi – Galleria Colussa (1995)
Title: Sironi
Exhibition venue: Colussa Galleria d'Arte, Udine (November 1995)
Publisher: Galleria Colussa, Udine
Year of publication: 1995
Features: Elegant editorial softcover with a glossy soft cover reproducing a full-scale preparatory academic drawing. Limited edition for gallery visitors and collectors of the Friulan gallery.

8. Mario Sironi – Raffaele De Grada (Club Amici dell'Arte)
Title: Mario Sironi
Author of the text: Raffaele De Grada
Publisher: Club Amici dell'Arte Editore, Milan
Year of publication: 1967
Features: Large rigid hardcover with a transparent/illustrated protective dust jacket, containing a wide selection of color plates applied that trace the artist’s mural compositions and geometric expressionism.

9. Exhibition of Mario Sironi – Palazzo Corsini (Florence, 1969)
Title: Exhibition of Mario Sironi
Writings by: Corrado Cagli, Alfonso Gatto
Exhibition venue: Florence, Palazzo Internazionale Aste ed Esposizioni (Palazzo Corsini)
Publisher: Moneta Editore, Milan
Year of publication: 1969
Features: Rare and historic exhibition catalog in a soft, illustrated color-printed editorial format. Includes an important critical essay and a valuable selection of plates and reproductions of the artist’s historical works.

10. Mario Sironi – Edizioni della Conchiglia (1944) – Limited Edition No. 94
Title: Mario Sironi
Series/Curators: Italian Painters and Sculptors of the Contemporary Era - Monographs edited by Giampiero Giani (Vol. V)
Publisher: Edizioni della Conchiglia, Milan
Year of publication: 1944 (wartime)
Notable features: This volume represents the most important and historically relevant piece of this tranche. It is the No. 94 of the series numbered with Arabic numerals, printed in an extremely limited run during World War II. Interiors with splendid hand-applied plates. The yellow soft cover shows age and bears a reinforcing tape on the spine, typical of the paper’s fragility at the time.

11. Homage to Sironi. Works 1922 - 1960 – Galleria Bellinzona
Title: Homage to Sironi. Works 1922 - 1960
Exhibition venue: Galleria Bellinzona, Lecco / Milan
Year of publication: Late 1970s / Early 1980s (based on the gallery’s exhibition activity)
Features: Square-format exhibition catalog with a glossy illustrated soft cover of the painting Il vanga (or The Orator) by Sironi. Well-curated gallery edition, aimed at private market collectors

12. Sironi – Edizioni del Milione (Historical monograph)
Title: Sironi
Editor/curator: Agnoldomenico Pica (Classic edition of the historical gallery/publishing house)
Publisher: Edizioni del Milione, Milan
Year of publication: 1955 (First edition or later reprints in the 1960s)
Features: One of the cornerstones of Sironian bibliography. Large hardcover monograph with a cloth or glossy paper dust jacket bearing the famous blue and black calligraphic “Sironi” title. The copy shows evident signs of time and repair tape on the lower margin and corners.