Framed lithograph by Mario Schifano signed and dated ‘gusto’ 1974

Wonderful original framed artwork by Mario Schifano. ‘Gusto’ (taste) dated 1974. Signed in pencil. Numbered and stamped. In an ivory mount and mat black wood frame.  

Shows a ladies mouth eating various foods in a very sexy manner! 

Artwork size 30x23cm 

Framed size 35x27cm

From Wikipedia:

Mario Schifano (20 September 1934, Khoms, Libya – 26 January 1998, Rome, Italy) was an Italian painter and collagist of the Postmoderntradition. He also achieved some renown as a film-maker and rock musician.

He is considered to be one of the most significant and pre-eminent artists of Italian postmodernism. His work was exhibited in the famous 1962 "New Realists" show at the Sidney Janis Gallery with other young Pop art and Nouveau réalisme innovators, including Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. He became part of the core group of artists comprising the "Scuola di Piazza del Popolo" alongside Franco Angeliand Tano Festa. Renowned as a prolific and exuberant artist, he nonetheless struggled with a lifelong drug habit that earned him the label maledetto "cursed".^[1]

Schifano had a relationship with Anita Pallenbergin 1963, and with Marianne Faithfull in 1969.^[2]

He had a connection to The Rolling Stonesbeyond his relationships with Pallenberg and Faithfull. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger gave cameo performances in a film he directed, Umano, non umano (1969), and he was the inspiration for the Rolling Stones song "Monkey Man" on their 1969 album Let It Bleed.

Artwork size 30x23cm 

Framed size 35x27cm