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Lot 20
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Mimmo Rotella

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Mimmo Rotella
  • Untitled
  • signed and dated 1957 on the reverse
  • collage on canvas
  • 76 by 108cm.
  • 30 by 42 1/2 in.

Provenance

Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome

Exhibited

Taverna, Chiostro del complesso monumentale di S. Domenico, I Rassegna Internazionale di Pittura e Scultura, 1989, p. 139, illustrated in colour
Sulmona, Palazzo dell'Annunziata, XVI Premio Sulmona. Mostra nazionale di pittura contemporanea e mostra di "Una collezione futurista", 1989, p. 87, illustrated
Rome, Palazzo Civiltà del lavoro, Artoon: l'influenza del fumetto nelle arti visive del XX secolo, 1989-90

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good and original condition.
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Catalogue Note

“I glue posters and then tear them off: new, unpredictable forms are born. I have abandoned painting on an easel for protest art.”

(the artist quoted in: Exhibition Catalogue, London, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Mimmo Rotella: Early Works 1954-1967, 2007, p. 40)