Lot 204
  • 204

Enrico Prampolini

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Enrico Prampolini
  • Organismi cosmici (Cosmic organisms)
  • signed Prampolini (lower right)
  • oil and wax on panel
  • 21.8 by 27cm., 8½ by 10½in.

Provenance

Alessandro Prampolini (brother of the artist, until at least 1961)
Fonte d'Abisso Arte, Milan
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1999

Exhibited

Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, III Quadriennale Nazionale d'Arte, 1939, no. 18 (titled as Pittura cosmica: organismi I)
Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, VIII Quadriennale Nazionale d'Arte, 1959-60
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Enrico Prampolini 1894-1956, 1961, no. 51

Literature

Filiberto Menna, Prampolini, Rome, 1987, no. 154, illustrated n.p.

Condition

The panel is sound. UV examination reveals a tiny spot of fluorescence to the edge of the central part of the thin black element. There are some irregularities to the wood on the extreme right edge of the panel, visible when framed. There are some minor fine lines of shrinkage consistent with the support. Otherwise is work is in overall good condition.
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