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This issue includes an original print by Eugenio Tomiolo, signed and numbered, it was limited to the first 250 subscribers to the first year of this series from the magazine Print Collector
signed and numbered 69/280, page size approximately 8x10
This print has been stored in an archival envelope as delivered and is in mint condition! Very Rare!
EUGENIO TOMIOLO was born in Venice on 18th December 1911. He studied at the Scuola d'Arte of the Carmini and subsequently practised with the restorer Moro and the Master iron smith Umberto Belloto. He then moved to Legnaga with his family - his father Aristide was a veterinary surgeon. In 1934-35 he attended the Academia Giambettino Cignaroli in Verona and successfully devoted his energies to Frescoes. He had to give up his artistic activity when called up for the Abyssian war. He resumed in Rome in 1937 where he worked until the outbreak of war in 1940.
He painted a series of frescoes in 1941-42:
- "Scenes from the Old and New Testaments" Commissioned by the Veronese family Corradini;
- "Recent stories of Italy" at Padua for The Bragadin family;
- "Four prophetic dreams of St. John Bosco" in the church of a Salesian institute. (These last two works were destroyed during the war).
He settled in Milan in 1945 and lived by himself the artistic events connected with the post-war revival. He took part in important art exhibitions. In 1952 he was invited to paint an altar-piece for A centre of the A.G.I.P. at Cesenatico, and in 1963 to carve a large crib in wood, actually of the church of Metanopoli in Milan. In 1967 he made two great mosaics in vitreous enamel for the new civic hospital of Legnago. In the same year the industrialist Pilade Riello devoted a monograph to him which consisted in the reproduction of about a hundred of his works accompanied by the testimonies of Mario de Micheli and Francesco Loi.
In 1971 Marcello and Rosalba Tabanelli, his art merchants, collected and published a general catalogue of his engravings (1930-1971), containing 381 titles with an introduction by Raffaele De Grada. It includes "La Resistenza" (The Resistance) - (12 etchings of 1943-44); "Semi" (Seeds) (13 dry-point engravings of 1956); "Milano vecchia e nuova" (Milan old and new) - (5 etchings - acquatints of 1957 for a congress of the E.N.I.); "Laguna" (Lagoon) (71 dry-point engravings of 1968). Lately these same merchants have organized numerous personal exhibitions for him in foreign cities (Luxembourg, Paris, Lugano, Tel Aviv etc.) and Italian ones (Milan, Ravenna, Brescia, Palermo, Florence, Venise etc.).
In 1974 they published "Centauri" (Centaurs) for Him. In the summer of 1975, for a series of "Racconti grafici" (graphic stories) (R.S.V.), "Cavalli soldati" (Soldier horses) came out, 12 dry-point engravings + 1, of 1973, with a brief written piece by the artist. Tomiolo also composes fine poetry in the Venetian language.
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