Mario Tozzi

{{Short description|Italian painter}} {{Expand Italian|topic=bio|Mario Tozzi (pittore)|date=December 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox artist | name = Mario Tozzi | image = Mario Tozzi pittore.jpg | caption = | othername = | birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1895|10|30}} | birth_place = [[Fossombrone]], Italy | death_date = {{death date and age |df=yes|1979|9|8|1895|10|30}} | death_place = [[Saint-Jean-du-Gard]], France | field = Painting }}

'''Mario Tozzi''' (30 October 1895 – 8 September 1979) was an Italian painter. He was awarded the [[Legion of Honour]] by the French government.<ref name="Pasquali">{{Cite book |editor = Marilena Pasquali|title = Catalogo Ragionato Generale dei Dipinti di Mario Tozzi|year =1988|publisher= Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori|location= Milano|isbn = 978-88-374-1030-8}}</ref>

==Biography== Tozzi studied at the [[Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna]] in Italy where he met [[Giorgio Morandi]] and [[Osvaldo Licini]]. He graduated in 1916.

After the First World War, he moved to Paris, France and founded the ''Groupe des Sept'' (also known as ''Les Italiens de Paris'') with [[Massimo Campigli]], [[Giorgio de Chirico]], [[Filippo De Pisis]], [[René Paresce|Renato Paresce]], [[Alberto Savinio]] and [[Gino Severini]].

Tozzi returned to Rome in 1936. His work was exhibited at the [[Venice Biennale]] in 1938, 1942, 1948, 1952 and 1954.

He returned to France in 1971, dying there in 1979.

A catalogue raisonné of his paintings was published In 1988 by Giorgio Mondadori Editore and edited by Marilena Pasquali.<ref name="Pasquali"/>

==Public collections== * [[Centre Pompidou|Centre Georges Pompidou]], Paris, France * [[Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon]], Lyon, France * [[Museum of Fine Arts Bern]], Bern, Switzerland * [[Pushkin Museum]], Moscow, Russia * [[Museo del Novecento]], Milan, Italy * [[Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna|Bologna Museum of Modern Art]], Bologna, Italy * [[Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna]], Rome, Italy

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== *{{cite book |author=Carli, Enzo|title=Tozzi |publisher=Bolaffi |year=1976}} * {{cite book |title=Mario Tozzi 1895-1979 |author=Pasquali, Marilena | publisher=Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta |location=Milano| date=1995}} * {{cite book |title=Les Enchantements de Mario Tozzi |author=Verdet, André |publisher=Editions Galilée |location= Paris |year=1978}}

==External links== * [http://www.mariotozzi.it/ Archives of the Works of Mario Tozzi]

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