Lot 267
  • 267

Mimmo Paladino

Estimate
180,000 - 220,000 EUR
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Description

  • Mimmo Paladino
  • Vespero
  • siglato; firmato, intitolato e datato 1984 sul retro

  • olio su tela
  • cm 300x325
  • Eseguito nel 1984

Provenance

Waddington Galleries, Londra
Collezione Marshall Frankel, Chicago

Exhibited

Londra, Waddington Galleries, Mimmo Paladino, 1984, n. 34, pag. 53, illustrato a colori
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Akron, Akron Art Museum, A New Romanticism: Sixteen Artists from Italy, 1985-86, n. 40, pag. 85, illustrato a colori
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Marshall Frankel Collection, 1988, n. 77, pag. 20, illustrato a colori

Condition

This work appears to be in generally good overall condition. The canvas is slighty wavy. There are few traces of craquelure with few paint losses toward the centre of the upper margin.
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Catalogue Note

"L'arte di Mimmo Paladino unisce il figurativo e l'astratto, la pittura e la scultura, attraverso riferimenti al linguaggio e al mito, arrivando a sviluppare un'arte di pittogrammi, un'arte alle origini..."
Zdnedek Felix, Concetto-Imago, in Transavanguardia, Milano 2002, pag. 260