Giulio Paolini

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection, Vancouver
Christie's, New York, May 4, 1995, lot 230
Private Collection, USA

Cologne, Galerie Paul Maenz, Giulio Paolini. Dal "Trionfo della rappresentazione," February - March 1986, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Acquisitions from the Komon, Salkauskas and Horton Funds, May 1987 (another example exhibited)
New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, A Sculpture Show, June - July 1987 (another example exhibited)
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, From the Southern Cross: A View of World Art 1940 -1988, May - September 1988, p. 217, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Great Gifts Great Patrons, August - October 1994 (another example exhibited)
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Arte Povera: Art from Italy 1967-2002, August - November 2002, p. 88, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Dallas Museum of Art, Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, February - May 2007, p. 178, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Revolutions - Forms that Turn. 16th Biennale of Sydney, June - September 2008, p. 295 (another example exhibited)

Exh. Cat., Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Giulio Paolini, 1986, vol. 2, p. 37, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Avant-Garde in the Eighties, 1987, n.p., illustrated
Alan Davie, Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, Sydney, 1988, p. 100, illustrated
Paul Maenz Köln 1970-1980-1990. Eine Avantgarde-Galerie und die Kunst unserer Zeit/An Avant-Garde Gallery and the Art of Our Time, Cologne, 1991, p. 204, illustrated
Michaela Unterdörfer, Die rezeption der Antike in der Postmoderne: der Gipsabguss in der italienischen Kunst der siebziger und achtziger Jahre, Weimar,1988, cat. no. 52, pp. 49-50, 145 and 169-170, illustrated
Art Gallery of New South Wales. Handbook, Sydney, 1999, p. 74, illustrated
Nike Bätzner, Arte Povera. Zwischen Erinnerung und Ereignis: Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis, Nuremberg, 2000, p. 100, illustrated
Arte moderna. L'arte contemporanea dal secondo dopoguerra ad oggi. Numero 37, Milan, 2001, p. 317, illustrated
Maddalena Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato. Tomo secondo 1983-1999, Milan, 2008, no. 530, p. 542, illustrated

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There is light wear and handling accretions to the pieces. Each plinth: 42 7/8 by 13 5/8 by 13 5/8 in. 109 by 34.5 by 34.5 cm Each: 24 3/4 by 16 1/2 by 12 1/8 in. 62 by 42 by 31 cm.
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"A plaster cast can reproduce something which is in Greece. Yet, plaster is also a material you can touch and therefore when it breaks it is revealed for what it is. It becomes an image not of what it recounts but what it truly is." - Giulio Paolini, 1984