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AVATI, Mario.
AVATI, Mario.
Mario Avati
French, 1921 - 2009
Mario Avati was born in Monaco in 1921. He trained first at the Nice Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and then at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. Together with the expatriate Japanese artists Shoichi Hasegawa and Yozo Hamaguchi in Tokyo, he led the revival of mezzotint as a popular print medium. Avati has been awarded several prizes : the Critics'prize, Paris 1957 ; gold medal at the first International Graphic Art Exhibition in Florence in 1969 ; City of Paris Arts prize in 1981. His works has been shown in numerous museums : UCLA Museum of Los Angeles, Yokohama Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Modern Art etc.
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