Valerio ADAMI: The Runner - Signed lithograph 1972

Valerio Adami : Italian painter born in Bologna in 1935, he lives between France and Italy. Trained at The Milan Academy of Fine Arts, he belongs to the Narrative Figuration movement since the 1970's. His works are characterized by the use of tint areas with vivid colors delimited by black contours. He realizes his first exhibition in 1957, in Milan. In 1970, his works are exposed in The Museum of Modern Art in Paris. At this time, he realized many portraits (James Joyce, Sigmund Freud...). In the 1980's, he ceates big wall paintings (Châtelet Theater (1988), Austerlitz's station (1992) in Paris, First National City Bank, Madison (1973-74)). Several great retrospectives are dedicated to him, in The "Centre Georges Pompidou", in 1985, in The Milan Pomodoro Foundation in 2008. He also exhibited in prestigious galleries, Maegth Gallery (now Lelong Gallery) or in Daniel Templon Gallery in Paris.

Museum of modern and contemporary art of Trento and Rovereto (Italy)
Walker Art Center (The USA)
MacVal (France)
Fondazione Marconi - Milano (Italy)
FRAC Poitou-Charente (France)
Museum of Modern Art Ceret (France)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
The Slaughterhouses - FRAC Midi Pyrenees (France)
Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation (France)
Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma (Finland)
SMAK (Belgium)
Vlassis Frissiras Collection (Greece)
FRAC Lower Normandy (France)
Municipal Contemporary Art Fund of Paris (France)
Wolubilis Art Library (Belgium)
Limousin Art Library + FACLIM (France)
MAMbo (Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna) (Italy)
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MACBA) Barcelona (Spain)
Centre Pompidou - National Museum of Modern Art (France)
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg (France)
Fundación Antonio Pérez. Diputación de Cuenca (Spain)
Museum of the Novecento (Italy)
Museum of Grenoble (France)
ACAPA (Angoulême Art Library) (France)
Brest Art Library (France)
IVAM Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (Spain)
Caen Art Library (France)
National Center for Plastic Arts (France)
Art Library, Angers (France)
Peruzzi Collection (Italy)
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas (Venezuela)
Museum of Contemporary Art Marseille (France)
Art Library, Poitiers (France)
The Modern Museum in Sweden - Moderna Museet (Sweden)
LGR Collection (France)
Eli ans Edythe Broad Art Museum (The USA)
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Lissone (Italy)
Art Library, Besançon (France)
FRAC Rhône-Alpes (France)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Belgium)
Art Library, Nantes (France)
Gelonch Viladegut Collection
Center for Engraving and Printed Images (Belgium)