Accession Code: wu0020 Title: Cheval Au Fond Rouge Date completed: 1953 Medium: Prints Material: Coloured Lithograph Height (mm): 1025 Width (mm): 743 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: Signed - Marini Marino - on plate. Location Name: Social Sciences Location Description: Law Location Floor: 2

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Marino Marini was the leading Italian sculptor of his day. He was born in Pistoia, Italy and attended the Academy of Art in Florence where he was impressed by the art of the Renaissance and antiquity.

From 1935 Marini often drew on the theme of the horse and rider which Kandinsky had previously pointed to as representative of spirituality and nobility.

Here Marini has used the theme to show the movement, power and form of a horse. The image has a disturbing quality, the animal's body, defined by angular shapes, is gaunt and contorted.