Original lithograph by Piero Dorazio.

- Size: 34 x 25cm
- Signature and year printed lower right
- Year: 1984

Piero Dorazio was born in Rome on June 29, 1927. He studied at the classical high school attending the studio of the painter Bandinelli starting to paint landscape scenes and still lifes and then moving on to works of cubist inspiration.

In 1947 he was one of the founders of the group "Forma 1". The group follows the trend of abstractionism and moves in opposition to the social function of art carried out by a group of artists including Guttuso, Sassu and others. At the beginning of the 50s Dorazio opened the gallery "L'Age d'Or" with Perilli and Guerrini with the intention of making it an exhibition place for avant-garde artists. He began his exhibition activity in 1948 participating in the"Quadriennale di Roma"and the "Salon des réalités nouvelles" in Paris. In 1954 the Rose Fried Gallery hosted his first solo show in New York. In 1957 he presented his first solo exhibition in Rome at the Galleria La Salita. He also participated in the Venice Biennale of 1956, 1958 and that of 1960 with a personal room. In 1960 he went to the United States where at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia he received the task of directing the department of fine arts, a position he held for the next ten years alternating it with a semester teaching.

In 1962 he joined the "Zero Group" participating in all the group's group exhibitions. In 1965 he participated in the exhibition "The Responsive Eye" at the MOMA in New York and in 1966 he was present again at the Venice Biennale. In the following years he continued his exhibition activity such as that of 1983 taking the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, the San Luca Prize in 1986 and the personal room at the Venice Biennale in 1988. The artist died in Perugia in 2005.