Lot 44
  • 44

Emilio Vedova

Estimate
280,000 - 350,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Emilio Vedova
  • Sopraffazione no. 1
  • signed, titled and dated 1960 on the reverse

  • oil on canvas
  • 145 by 145cm.
  • 57 by 57in.

Provenance

The artist
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1990

Exhibited

Venice, XXX Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, 1960

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. The white tonality is warmer and tends more towards creamy beige. Condition: This work is in very good condition. No restoration is visible under ultra-violet light.
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Catalogue Note

"At the end of the 1950s I had a crisis; I rebelled against geometry, the dominant rigor in my paintings, and tried to make my work vibrate with more spontaneity." (the artist cited in: Exhibition Catalogue, Venezia, Museo Correr, Vedova 1935-84, 1984, p. 35).