Lot 26
  • 26

Giulio Paolini

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
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Description

  • Giulio Paolini
  • Doppia verità
  • plaster cast, plexiglas cases with one mirrored side, white plinth
  • Overall: 160 by 110 by 60cm.
  • 63 by 43 1/4 by 23 5/8 in.
  • Executed in 1995, this work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Provenance

the artist
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
Galleria 1000eventi, Milan
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the late 1990s

Exhibited

Rome, Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Giulio Paolini, 1995

Literature

Maddalena Disch (eds), Giulio Paolini. La voce del pittore - Scritti e interviste 1965 - 1995, Lugano 1995, no. 1, illustrated,
Impresa per l'arte contemporanea, no. 2, Castiglione Torinese, October 1996, illustrated
Exhibition Catalogue, Trento, Castel Ivano, Ivano Fracena, Artmonie. Architettura e scultura negli spazi  pubblici, Trento, 1997, p. 112, illustrated in colour
Exhibition Catalogue, Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Artecittà. 11 Artisti per il Passante Ferroviario di Torino, 1998, p. 46, illustration of a detail in colour
Exhibition Catalogue, Graz, Ostfildern-Ruit, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum, Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, 1998, p. 319, illustration of a detail in colour
T. Wada, Giulio Paolini. Artist Interview 1, in 'BT Bijutsu Techo', vol. 50, no. 755, Tokyo, May 1998, p. 200, illustrated  in colour
M. Unterdörfer, Die Rezeption der Antike in der Postmoderne: der Gipsabguss in der italienischen Kunst der siebziger und achtziger Jahre, Weimar 1998, pp. 41-42, 147, 166, 169, 226, no. 65, no.40, illustrated
M. Bandini, Arte che parla dell'arte, in 'Ars', no. 8, Milan, August 1999, p. 99, illustrated in colour
Rosemblum Robert, Roberto Maria Teresa, Gian Enzo Sperone. Torino Roma New York 35 anni di mostre tra Europa e America, Turin 2000, vol. 2, p. 447, illustrated in colour
François Hartog, Memoria di Ulisse. Racconti sulla frontiera nell'antica Grecia, Turin 2002, illustrated in colour on the cover
Giovanni Lista, Arte Povera, Milan 2006, p. 50, no. 44, illustrated in colours
Exhibition Catalogue, Rome, Spazio Risonanze, Auditorium della Musica, Risonanze no. 2, Giulio Paolini & Fabio Vacchi, 2008, p. 56, illustrated
Maddalena Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato. Volume Secondo 1983-1999, Milan 2008, p. 762, no. 748, illustrated

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the illustration does not fully illustrate the base. Condition: This work is in very good condition. The front right corner tip of the right plexy-box is slightly loose.
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