Description: Artist: GREGORIO SCILTIAN (Russian/Armenian/Italian, 1900 - 1985)Title: "Pontius Pilate Sentences Jesus" - 1981Medium: Original 8-Color Lithograph printed from stones on C.M. Fabriano watermarked cotton paperSignature: Hand-Signed by the Artist in Pencil, LREdition: Limited Edition of 250 impressions; this one numbered "39/250" in pencil, LLSize: 17 1/2 x 13 inches (image); 29 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches (sheet)Printer /Publisher: Libreria Editrice Vaticana - The Vatican Library & MuseumProvenance: Hatay Stratton Fine ArtAbout the Artist: GREGORIO SCILTIAN (Armenian, 20 August 1900 – 1 April 1985) was an Italian-Armenian painter, printmaker, designer, and medallist. Sciltian is well known for his portraiture and trompe-l'oeil compositions. The Russian-born painter best known for his surrealistic still lifes and portraits. Born of Armenian parents Aug. 20, 1900, in Rostov on the Don River, Mr. Sciltian abandoned his classical studies while still in his teens to become a painter. Leaving the Soviet Union in 1919, he lived in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Milan, and Venice before settling in Rome on a street named for Italian master Raphael in a labyrinthine apartment overlooking the Tiber River. Mr. Sciltian`s main influences were the futurists and cubists of his youth as well as the Italian Caravaggio and the Flemish painters Van Eyck and Brueghel. His own works showed surrealistic collections of objects painted with almost photographic realism. Italian surrealist Giorgio De Chirico called them ''Sciltian`s theater.'' Mr. Sciltian`s paintings hang in museums in New York, London, Brussels and Berlin as well as in Italy. His last major exhibition was a retrospective in Milan in October, 1980, of 80 pictures, among them ''Il Filatelico'' (The Philatelist), his most famous work. In 1981, he was commissioned by The Vatican Museums to create a series of lithographs narrating the life of Jesus Christ. Stating of his moral and esthetic views on art in a ''Treatise on Painting,'' Mr. Sciltian wrote, ''The decadence of the painter derives from man`s hate of himself and of the world from which violence is born.''
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Artist: GREGORIO SCILTIAN (Russian/Armenian/Italian, 1900
Production Technique: Color Lithograph
Style: Neo-Expressionism Surrealism, Expressionism
Material: Lithograph, Paper
Theme: Art, Religious
Time Period Produced: 1980-1989
Type: S/N Limited Edition Print
Features: Limited Edition of 250; " /250", Signed, Limited Edition, Numbered
Subject: Religious, Landscape
Signed: Yes
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Year of Production: 1981
Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
Width (Inches): @22
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Height (Inches): @30
Print Surface: C.M. Fabriano watermarked paper
Date of Creation: 1970-1989
Color: Multi-Color
