Artist Monograph

Alberto Magnelli, Italian

Italian, 1888–1971

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Lithography	4	57.1%
Etching	2	28.6%
Screenprint	1	14.3%

Production by Decade

1

1930s

3

1940s

1

1950s

2

1960s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	4	66.7%
Medium (30–100 cm)	2	33.3%

Range: 14.6 cm → 41.0 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1945	1
1949	1
1964	2
1967	1
1976	1
2022	1

Italian Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 7 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Plate (folio 31) from 23 Gravures Illustrated Book Acc. 14.1945.14	1934, published 1935	Etching from an illustrated book with twelve etchings (one with aquatint and drypoint), five drypoints, three engravings (one with drypoint), two lithographs, and one woodcut	plate: 8 7/16 × 6 9/16" (21.5 × 16.7 cm); sheet: 11 × 8 7/8" (28 × 22.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase Fund
Plate (folio 18) from 10 Origin Print Acc. 616.1949.8	1942	Woodcut from a portfolio of six linoleum cuts, three woodcuts, and one lithograph	composition: 10 × 7 5/8" (25.4 × 19.3 cm); page (each): 10 5/8 × 8 1/4" (27 × 21 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Folio 14 from Poésie de mots inconnus (Poetry of Unknown Words) Illustrated Book Acc. 490.2022.14	1949	Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with seven woodcuts, seven etchings (two with aquatint, one with engraving), six lithographs, three drypoints, two engravings, one aquatint, and one linoleum cut	plate (partial): 12 5/16 x 9 5/8" (31.3 x 24.4cm); page: 12 11/16 × 9 15/16" (32.2 × 25.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
In-text plate (folio 14) from Poésie de mots inconnus Illustrated Book Acc. 992.1964.14	1949	Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with seven woodcuts, seven etchings (two with aquatint, one with engraving), six lithographs, three drypoints, two engravings, one aquatint, and one linoleum cut	plate (partial): 12 5/16 x 9 5/8" (31.3 x 24.4cm); page: 12 11/16 × 9 15/16" (32.2 × 25.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Louis E. Stern Collection
Opposition from Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art (Art d'aujourd'hui, maîtres de l'art abstrait), Album I Print Acc. 1106.1964.11	1953 (original executed in 1942)	One from a portfolio of sixteen screenprint reproductions	composition: 16 1/8 × 12 11/16" (41 × 32.3 cm); sheet: 25 1/4 × 19 1/4" (64.1 × 48.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Louis E. Stern Collection
Plate 14 from Futurists, Abstractionists, Dadaists: the Forerunners of the Avant-Garde, vol. I Illustrated Book Acc. 521.1967.14	1962	Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with nineteen etchings (three with drypoint, two with aquatint, and one with aquatint and embossing) and one engraving	plate: 5 3/4 × 4 1/2" (14.6 × 11.4 cm); page: 11 3/4 × 9 7/16" (29.8 × 24 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Peter Deitsch Gallery
Plate (folio 26) from Hommage à Roger Lacourière Illustrated Book Acc. 15.1976.7	1968	Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with twelve etchings (two with aquatint, two with drypoint, one with aquatint and drypoint) and one drypoint	plate: 6 5/8 × 8 15/16" (16.8 × 22.7 cm); page: 9 1/4 × 11 7/16" (23.5 × 29 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Stanley Resor Fund (by exchange)