
ENRICO BAJ, D’APRE A LA GAND JATTE, SCREEN PRINTING, MIX MEDIA LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED c.1973
ABOUT Enrico Baj limited edition screen print and mixed media on wove paper, hand signed by artist and numbered 66/250 in pencil. CREATOR Enrico Baj, Italy. DATE OF MANUFACTURE 1973. MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Screen printing, mixed media, multicolored collage. CONDITION Good. Wear consistent with age and use. DIMENSIONS Sheet: H 27.5 in. x W 39.5 in., Image: H 23.25 in. W 35 in. HISTORY ENRICO BAJ (1924-2003) Enrico Baj was born in Milan, 1924. He studied at the Accademia di Brera. In 1951, along with Sergio Dangelo and Gianni Dova, he promoted the Movimento Arte Nucleare, and held his first solo exhibition in Milan at the Galleria San Fedele. Upon meeting Asger Jorn in 1953, the two founded the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, which reacted against the forced rationalization and geometry of art. The following year, Baj organized the International Ceramics Meetings at Albisola in Liguria, Italy. Baj’s artistic experiments resulted in multicolored collages made