Anselmo Bucci, Military, Etching, 1917

Military'' 1917s is a beautiful print in etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Hand signed. Numbered 61/100 of prints on the lower left. On the lower left corner, an illegible inscription written in pencil. Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955): Italian painter, engraver and writer, one of the initiators of the artistic movement of the twentieth century in Milan in 1922. He took part in the Salon des Indépendants from 1910 on. He enlisted in the Volunteer Cyclist Battalion in 1915 and he became one of the most famous Italian war artists. He lives the war experience with a lot of the Futurism movement's exponents. In ''Pane e Luna'', his biography, he wrote: «Siamo fucilieri dell’ottavo plotone, a guardia notturna del Forte Trimelone e del lacustre Fronte. Tra noi buoni compagnoni sono i chiari Futuristi; altri oscuri per un oscuro compito». In the series ''Croquis du Front Italien'' that includes 50 drypoints, Bucci describes scenes of the Italian front in the First World War. During the war, in his battalion there were Marinetti, Boccioni and Sant'Elia.