Large Symbolist Engraving By Albert Decaris, Test Print

Beautiful test print, by the artist himself, of a symbolist engraving, circa 1930. Albert Decaris was awarded the Rome Prize for engraving in 1919, stayed at the Villa Medicis, and was an immense illustrator in the 1930s. His activity was various, creation of stamps, painting, drawing, and even painter of the Navy. This large print engraved with a burin, unsigned because it remained in the artist's studio until his disappearance, and reprinted in pencil, showing that it was only one stage of the project carries all the force of culture and the strangeness that this artist could demonstrate. the darkness of Piranese (that of prisons) is present in this masterful work, Rare are the artists who leave their mark on an imagination, Albert Decaris is one of them. Contemporary setting.