Untitled

Details

Alberto Burri (1915-1995)
Untitled
acrylic on cellotex on plywood
6 3/8 x 9 ¼in. (16 x 23cm.)
Executed in 1981

Provenance

Galleria Mazzoleni, Turin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.

Exhibited

Turin, Galleria Mazzoleni, Alberto Burri. Tra Materia e Forma. Opere scelte 1948-1993, 2003, no. 39 (illustrated in colour, pp. 88-89).

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Further details

This work is registered in the Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini, Città di Castello, under no. 8151 and will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné being published by the Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini, Città di Castello.

Lot Essay

'The object which Burri composes is a painting or, if one prefers, the fiction of a painting, a sort of reversed trompe-l'oeil in which it is not the painting that simulates reality but reality that simulates the painting' (G. C. Argan, quoted in F. Pirani, ‘Notes on the Critical Vicissitudes of Alberto Burri’, in Burri 1915-1995: Retrospektive, exh. cat., Rome, 1996, p. 131).

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