Enrico Baj (1924-2003) - Personnage aux yeux rouges (vendu sans prix de réserve)

We present to you this superb lithograph by the artist Enrico Baj (1924-2003), Italian painter.

Title: Character with Red Eyes.

Artist: Enrico Baj (1924-2003).

Technique: Lithograph on paper signed in pencil

Signature: Signed at the bottom right in pencil.

Sheet format: 65 x 49 cm

Condition: Good condition.

Enrico BAJ (1924-2003)

Born October 31, 1924 in Milan, Italy - Died June 16, 2003 in Vergiate, Italy
Nationality Italian

Biography:
Son of a wealthy Milanese family. Studied law at the University of Milan and painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.

1951 - Founded with Sergio Dangelo the Movimento Arte Nucleare (Nuclear Art Movement), political art against abstract art and the nuclear threat.
1952-1953 - Founded with Asger Jorn the International Movement for an Imagist Bauhaus, against the rationalization of art. Close to the CoBrA movement.
1954 - Organized the International Ceramics Meetings in Albisola
1960 - Debut in New York, Surrealism exhibition organized by André Breton and Marcel Duchamp
1961 - Exhibited at MoMA New York "Art of Assemblage"
1964 - Personal room at the Venice Biennale (works censored)
1972 - Created "The Funerals of the Anarchist Pinelli", reference to Carrà and Picasso's Guernica, a monumental work long prohibited. Today at the Museo del Novecento in Milan.
1989 - Created 30 puppets for the opera Le Bleu-blanc-rouge et le noir (Burgess/Ferrero) for the bicentennial of the French Revolution.

His art:
Famous for his satirical series "The Generals" and "The Ladies": absurd characters overloaded with medals, buttons, stripes, fabrics, mirrors, pasted on. Critique of military and bourgeois power.
Blend of Dada, Surrealism, Pop Art. Close to Duchamp, Picasso, Miró, Umberto Eco.

Anarchist-leaning, Satrap of the College of Pataphysics (title Imperator Analogico).

Works at the Centre Pompidou Paris, MoMA New York, Tate London, Art Institute of Chicago."