Mario De Micheli - Guttuso - 1970

Guttuso
Typology: Large-format art monograph / Fine edition.
Author / Texts: Mario De Micheli (art historian and critic, among the most authoritative scholars of Italian Realism).
Publisher: Developed and printed in institutional collaboration, it bears in the top-right of the inner title page the original blue archive stamp of the Istituto Finanziario per l'Arte - Finarte S.p.A., attesting to its provenance from the historic consultation library of the auction house.
Year of publication: 1960s / early 1970s.
Details on Edition and Rarity: the work was printed in a total edition of 5,200 copies. Specifically, 5,000 copies are numbered with Arabic numerals and 200 feature an ex libris reserved for the Publisher. This copy presents the space for the number blank ("Esemplare N."), configured as an archival copy or printing proof intended internally to Finarte before commercial numbering.
Physical characteristics: Very large folio format (about 35 x 30 cm) provided with a color illustrated dust jacket (reproducing the work The Painter's Table / Studio). The interior features a magnificent anthology of expressionist drawings, academic studies, nude scenes, and bustling ink-and-watercolor compositions (as shown in Photos 4 and 5), reproduced on special papers of different colors and tactile textures to emulate the original supports.
The volume runs to about 140 pages (including the introductory critical texts by De Micheli and the wide full-page plates printed separate from the text).