Osvaldo Licini

Collezione U. Meneghini, Venezia
Ivi acquistato dalla famiglia dell'attuale proprietario

Milano, Galleria Bergamini, Ovaldo Licini, 1969-70
Ascoli Piceno, Polo Culturale Sant'Agostino, Chagall-Licini e il sopra-naturale in Arp, Ernst, Klee, Mirò, Savinio, 2001

G. Marchiori, I cieli segreti di Osvaldo Licini, Venezia 1968, n. 310, tav. LXIV, illustrato

This work appears to be in generally good overall condition. Under UV light are visible few retouchings on the wing and by the upper corners. There are traces of threadlike stable crauqelures by the left margin on the black pigment and by the upper one. The colours are slightly less yellowish compared to the catalogue illustration.
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"Oggi (...) la pittura astratta è considerata quasi accademica. Io adesso non sono più astrattista...adesso, io me ne vado un po' svolazzando per conto mio, nei cieli della fantasia: e così di cielo in cielo, sono diventato un angelo abbastanza ribelle, con la coda, insomma, e qualche volta, mi diverto a morderla, questa coda!"
(O. Licini, cit. in G. Baratta, F. Bartoli, Z. Birolli, Osvalodo Licini. Errante, erotico, eretico, Milano 1974, pag. 149)