Landscape #3
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drypoint in black on Somerset paper
Dimensions
sheet: 57.5 x 37.5 cm (22 5/8 x 14 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2001.142.28
Art Historical Context
Francesco Clemente's *Landscape #3* (1981) is a captivating drypoint print that exemplifies the Italian artist's Transavanguardia style—a Neo-Expressionist movement that revived bold, intuitive mark-making in the late 20th century. Created during Clemente's prolific New York period when he immersed himself in the vibrant international art scene alongside figures like Jean-Michel Basquiat, this work captures an ethereal, dreamlike vista. The intimate sheet size (57.5 x 37.5 cm) invites close viewing, revealing the artist's hand-drawn lines that evoke fragmented memories of the Italian countrysi...
About the Artist
Francesco Clemente
Francesco Clemente was born on March 23, 1952, in Naples, Italy, into an aristocratic family as the only son of Judge Marchese Lorenzo Clemente di San Luca and his wife, Bianca Quarto. Drawn to art from childhood through dreamlike drawings inspired by recollections, he moved to Rome in 1970 to study architecture at Sapienza University but soon abandoned it for visual arts. There, he met the concep...