Publisher/Manufacturer: Atesa Grafica, Bologna Series title: Twelve Months of the Year
1979 Offset colour lithograph, featuring a reproduction of an engraving, in magenta and brown on white wove Fabriano? paper
272 x 425 mm. Gift: The artist 1979 / 1980
Part of a set of 12 lithographs, representing the months of the year, combining contemporary work by Luigi G. Mattei (b.1945) with seventeenth century engravings by Guiseppe Maria Mitelli (1634-1718). Developed from an idea by Giancarlo Roversi. From an edition of 299 sets. The prints are contained in a portfolio with an introduction, descriptive notes and a short biography of Guiseppe Maria Mitelli, all in Italian
A fisherman and sketches of legs; Mattei and Mitelli, June. In the upper half is a reproduction of an engraving by Mitelli of a barefoot fisherman wearing a hat with two stalks of wheat. The fisherman holds a lobster, a fishing net, a tackle box and a small basket of fish. A lobster, representing Cancer, is enclosed in a small circle in the upper right corner. Below and to the lower left are four magenta sketches by Mattei. They are of the legs and arms of a man who appears to be casting a fishing net. Flowing lines evoke movement. Text on image, 'GIVGNO'
