Playing Dominoes 10x13 - Cuba

Year1983

Hand SignedLower Left in Pencil 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with GlassWood Frame 

Purchased fromOther 2024 

Provenance / HistoryNot sure 

Story / Additional InfoGraphite drawing on paper support. Signature reads Donizetti on the artwork and signed and date on back of frame. The artwork is a caricature type drawing the most likely created to perhaps make a social comment regarding the domino effect as a political statement. “The man on the right side of the drawing may be the artist’s take on Fidel Castro and the man on left a Spanish/Cuban General. Dominoes is considered national pastime of Cuba and was played by Fidel Castro. Artisit signature lower right hand corner reads “Donizetti” and date written after signature with date and signature on back of frame. Again just what I have been educated on. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID170570

Mario Donizetti - Italy

Art Brokerage: Mario Donizetti Italian Artist: b. 1932. Mario Donizetti is one of the leading figures in contemporary art, he is considered the greatest exponent of realist figurative painting. In a documentary dedicated to him by CNN–International of New York, Elsa Klensch described the “timeless quality” of his art, which has made him famous all over the world. The scientific precision of his technical approach has led to his resurrection of varnished and glazed egg yolk tempera (the ancient secrets of which had been completely forgotten), his invention of a method for encaustic painting with an easel and his invention of the “encausticised pastel” (a radical transformation of the pastel with structural modifications to the method and materials). Despite these being absolutely personal and completely innovative techniques, they represent continuity with the great past of western art. This consideration is also remarked upon by Phyllis A. Tickle, who writes in her essay “Greed” (Oxford University Press, New York 2003) that “Mario Donizetti…more than any other contemporary artist has understood that new imagination must always go back to ask from its ancients the footings for its own work.…Saying that the destruction of the past leads to nothing but silence, he teaches that what must come next is a reverence for whatever is left standing out of what has been”. Several of his celebrated portraits – including the one of Pope John Paul II, which is now in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington – have been published on the cover of “Time” magazine. In 1983, he had the honour of staging an anthological exhibition of paintings and drawings in the halls of the Ambrosiana Picture Gallery in Milan. Listings wanted by Art Brokerage.