Bidspirit auction | Luigi Lucioni (1900 - 1988)

Luigi Lucioni (1900 - 1988) ”Tree Lined Road' - Luigi Lucioni (1900 - 1988) Limited Edition Etching on paper, titled ”Tree Lined Road, signed lower rigth ”Luigi Lucioni” and dated 1936, piece Very few of these were made one is displayed at the Museum of Prints and Printmaking in Albany, NY. Born in Italy in 1900, Lucioni immigrated to the United States in 1911 and rose from humble beginnings to achieve commercial and critical success as an artist. After training at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, Lucioni was granted his first solo exhibition at the Ferargil Galleries in New York in 1927. A friendship and patronage with Shelburne Museum’s founder, Electra Havemeyer Webb, drew the artist to Shelburne, Vermont, in 1930. Lucioni maintained a lifelong connection with the Museum and Vermont and spent many summers teaching at the Southern Vermont Arts Center.Known during his lifetime as a technically sophisticated realist who favored the play of light and shadows on weathered barns and stately trees, Lucioni contributed to the genre that art historian Bruce Robertson has termed “Yankee Modernism.” Lucioni, along with Paul Sample, Maxfield Parrish, and even Charles Sheeler and Andrew Wyeth, depicted a landscape and a people, orderly yet odd, who embodied an idealized set of “American” values in an era of great social and political change. Condition: The absence of a condition report does not imply an object is free of defects. All items may have normal signs of age and wear commensurate with their age; these issues will likely not be mentioned in the condition report. Please contact the auction house before the auction with any condition questions. Questions about condition will not be answered after purchase. Condition reports are provided as a courtesy, and we are not responsible for any errors or omissions. Important note on frames: Frames are not guaranteed to be in the same condition as they are in the item photograph. Due to handling and shipping, many frames, especially antique ones, are prone to losses. If you have questions about the condition of a frame, please contact us prior to the auction.