Enzo Mari Sold at Auction Prices

Sculptor, Illustrator, b. 1932 - d. 2020

Enzo Mari (27 April 1932 – 19 October 2020) was an Italian modernist artist and furniture designer who is known to have influenced many generations of industrial designers. Mari was born in Novara, Italy, and he studied at the Brera Academy in Milan, Italy from 1952 to 1956. He drew inspiration from the idealism of the arts and crafts movement and his political views as a communist. Mari married art critic, theoretician and performance artist Lea Vergine, in 1978. They had known each other since the 1960s. He died on 19 October 2020, at the age of 88 from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. His wife died a day later, also from COVID-19.