Mario Tozzi (1895 - 1979 ) was an Italian painter. He was awarded the
Legion of Honourby the French government. Tozzi studied at the
Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna in Italy. He graduated in 1916. After the First World War, he moved to Paris, France. Along with Massimo Campigli,
Giorgio de Chirico, Filippo de Pisis, Renato Paresce,
Alberto Savinioand
Gino Severini, he founded the Groupe des Sept (aka: Les Italiens de Paris ). Tozzi returned to Rome in 1936. His work was exhibited at the
Venice Biennalein 1938, 1942, 1948, 1952 and 1954. He returned to France in 1971 and died there in 1979. A catalogue raisonné of his paintings was published in 1988 by Giorgio Mondadori Editore and edited by Marilena Pasquali. His paintings are on view at the
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; the
Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Lyon, France; the
Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Bern, Switzerland; the
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia; the
Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy; the
Bologna Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, Italy; and the
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy.
Photo of Mario Tozzi
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Self-Portrait
Peasants
Nudes
The Pot and the Egg
The Fishing Family
The New Secularism
Ritratto di mia moglie
Interior with the Head of a Woman
Reu de Rennes, Paris
Spring Figures on a Balcony
Painter and Model
Confiding
Enbarcadero
The Sculptor's Eisel
