BONA TIBERTELLI MANDIARQUES (1926-2000, Italy). Silkscreeen. Signed and numbered 185/290 in pencil by artist. 23 x 19 1/2 in. Bona Tibertelli de Pisis—aka Bona—was born in Rome in 1926. She described herself as an “ignorant autodidact,” but it was her uncle, metaphysical painter Filippo de Pisis, who introduced her to painting. She received exceptional training at the Atelier d’Art Venturi in Modena and then at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Venise. She met poet and future husband André Pieyre de Mandiargues in Paris in 1947. De Mandiargues introduced her to André Breton and the Surrealists. She showed her work in 1952 at the Berggruen Gallery, then at a 1953 show in Milan. She participated in the 1953 Surrealist Exhibition at the l’Etoile Scellée gallery and the International Surrealist Exhibitions in Paris in 1959 and 1960. In 1958, the artist departed from figurative art and adopted an abstract style, incorporating various materials into her paintings. Ultimately, she departed from painting in favor of textile collages that she created by assembling and sewing together bits of fabric. Her collages had mystical titles, a vestige no doubt of her many trips to India and Mexico. She was also an accomplished writer who translated works into Italian before publishing her own written work. She published La Cafarde in 1967, Bonaventure, her autobiography, in 1977, and a collection of poems titled A moi-même in 1988. She died in Paris in 2000, having just finished editing her childhood memoirs Vivre en herbe, which were published posthumously.. Title: BONA TIBERTELLI MANDIARQUES (1926-2000,). Medium: Silkscreen. Size: 23 X19.5 in. Signature: SLR. Artist: BONA TIBERTELLI MANDIARQUES (1926-2000,). Unframed.

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