Grand Hotel Rogoledo - Original Advertising Lithograph by E. Sacchetti -1914 ca. 1914 ca.

Grand Hôtel Regoledo is a colored lithographed original manifesto on cardboard, realized around 1914 by the Italian artist Aldo Mazza. This modern artwork is monogrammed on plate on higher right margin and has the inscriptions printed on lower margin, under the image: ''A. Mazza/ Off. G. Ricordi and C. Milano / 100 x 140''. In excellent condition except for some light abrasions of the paper at the edges. This original print shows the vintage taste and the Mazza's draftsmanship and his full mastery of the artistic medium, has the dignity of an object of art to collect in your fashionable and sophisticated home furniture. Aldo Mazza (Milan, - Gavirate, 1964) Aldo Mazza was an Italian painter, advertiser, designer and caricaturist. He grew up in an atmosphere marked by art and patriotism - his father and his uncle had participated in the defense of Milan, against the Austrians of Marshal Josef Radetzky. At the Academy of Brera he had Cesare Tallone as his teacher. He devoted himself to painting and in the meantime he illustrated children's books, for the publisher Vallardi. He designed satirical drawings for The departure of the crusader. The first assignment as author of satirical cartoons was given by ''Guerin Meschino'', a magazine with which he collaborated for more than twenty years; he also designed for ''Il Numero'', for ''L'Illustrazione Italiana'', for ''Il Secolo'' (from 1924) and for ''Il Pasquino''. He was linked to the group of caricatures of the ''Frigidarium''. In 1983, the exhibition The political satire in the drawings by Aldo Mazza was set up in Milan. He worked as a poster designer especially for the Bolognese firm Chappuis, for the Graphic Arts Bertarelli and for Ricordi, realizing about sixty posters, among advertising and politicians; he also designed theatrical posters, calendars and postcards in chromolithography. Titles of some of his posters: Birra Italia, Shell Lubricants, Articles for Photography Ganzini, Bicycles Bianchi, La Rinascente, Credito Italiano, Magazzini Vittoria. He designed a Shell advertising campaign on a postcard, and during the Great War he created postcards for the National Loan. A large group of his posters, made during the Great War, like Don't let me miss the ammunition! (1917), I am in Rome, at the Library of Modern and Contemporary History. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago by an artist who has died requires a licence for export regardless of the work’s market price. The shipping may require additional handling days to require the licence according to the final destination of the artwork.