Original Italian MCM Modernist Signed Abstract Lithograph Marino Marini, 1969 Sold He moved to Chicago in

He moved to Chicago in 1979 and enrolled at the Art Institute

2011 for over $65

The base having an organic form of decoration with a shallow shelf and inlaid with three floral tiles

it is housed in the original gilded gesso frame

both tables are fitted with a drawer to the front having the original engraved handles and 'blind' escutcheon

Original Italian MCM Modernist Signed Abstract Lithograph Marino Marini, 1969 Sold He moved to Chicago inA color abstract geometric composition titled "From Color to Form" IV, executed in 1969, by the celebrated Italian artist Marino Marini (1901 1980). Marini was mainly a sculptor, he studied in Florence, until 1940 he was professor of art at the Scuola dArte di Villa Reale near Milan, he was a friend and contemporary of Jean Arp, Max Beckmann, Alexander Calder, Giorgio de Chirico and Alberto Giacometti. He participated in the "20th Century Italian Art"