Rico Le Brun
American, born Italy, 1900 - 1964Villon's Death Ballad, 1945
Not on view
Lithograph on paper
Dimensions24 3/4 × 19 in. (62.9 × 48.3 cm)
Gift from the Collection of Myron and Barbara Levine, 2018.112
In the early 20th century, Italian artist Rico Le Brun immigrated to the United States and worked as a commercial artist. In the 1930s he returned to Italy to study frescoes, eventually coming back to California in 1936. Depicting the death of 15th-century poet, murderer, and thief François Villon, this print is a good example of his dark imagery of the mid-1940s when he was teaching in Mexico.
