Antonini's etchings reveal "the poetry of everyday things used in a particularly observant way... The mundane object is placed in a way which opens our eyes to its less tangible qualities, distilling for us the beauty of simple things and showing how they relate to us."
—Anthony Dawson, from the preface to catalogue raisonné 1970-1980.
Biographical Information
Born 1942 in Lugano, Switzerland
Settled in Paris, France in 1962
Studied drawing with Mac Avoy at l'Acémie Julian
Studied painting with Pierre Jérôme at l'Académie Julian
Studied etching with J. Friedlander
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Biblioteca Cantonale, Lugano
Bibliothèque nationale, Paris
Bibliothèque nationale Suisse, Bern
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris
International Museum of Art, San Francisco
Ministère des Affaires Culterelles, Paris
Portsmouth Museum
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
University of Glasgow
Ville de Paris
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