1969
Edition Size: 100
Image Size: 20.5 x 14 inches
Sheet Size: 28 x 19.5 inches
Signed
Condition: Excellent
Artist: Enrico Baj, Italian (1924 – 2003)
Title: Baj Chez Picasso 4
Year: 1969
Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 86/100
Image Size: 20.5 x 14 inches
Size: 28 in. x 19.5 in. (71.12 cm x 49.53 cm)
Born in Milan, Italy, in 1924, Enrico Baj was an artist of his time. His early career was shaped by the horrors of World War Two and the threat of nuclear war in the 1950s. Often at odds with the military-style of government that Italy was under at the time, his works had a radical political and social edge. Although he came from a wealthy family, he subscribed to anarchism and left Italy in 1944 so he wouldn’t be conscripted to take part in the Second World War. He was an originator of the Arte Nuclearia genre, which used art to criticise the military leadership seemingly taking the world towards a nuclear apocalypse.
