A mezza luna (At Half-Moon)

Details

Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
A mezza luna (At Half-Moon)
signed 'Rotella' (lower right); signed and titled 'Rotella "a mezza luna"' (on the reverse)
décollage on canvas
39 5/8 x 23 7/8in. (100.5 x 60.5cm.)
Executed in 1960

Provenance

Private Collection.
Anon. sale, Finarte Rome, 3 June 1993, lot 153.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

A. C. Quintavalle, Carte italiane. Opere su carta della Collezione "CartaSi", Milan 2000 (illustrated in colour, p. 161).
G. Celant, Mimmo Rotella. Catalogo ragionato. Volume primo 1944-1961 Tomo II, Milan 2016, no. 1960 147, p. 692 (illustrated in colour, p. 438).

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.

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Lot Essay

‘I invented the décollages in Rome, in 1953, but I only showed them to the public for the first time in February 1954. It was the art critic and philologue Emilio Villa, who was the first to discover the lacerated posters. He came to my house...one night saw my “papers” and was stunned. He told me that I was doing very important things, and that I had invented a new artistic language.’ MIMMO ROTELLA

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