Lot 18
  • 18

Afro

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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Description

  • Afro
  • La Città Morta
  • signed and dated 1953; signed twice, titled, dated 1953 and inscribed Via Margutta 94 Roma on the stretcher
  • oil and mixed media on canvas
  • 110.7 by 70.3cm.
  • 43 5/8 by 27 5/8 in.

Provenance

Galleria del Milione, Milan
Private Collection, Pittsburgh
Sale: Christie's, New York, Contemporary Art, 5 May 1993, Lot 249A
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Rome, Galleria dell'Obelisco, Twenty Imaginary Views of the American Scene by Twenty Young Italian Artists, 1953
Copenhagen, Sammenslutningen af Danske Kunstforeninger, Europa Kunst, 1953-54
Oakland, The Mills College of Art Gallery; San Francisco, H. M. De Young Museum; Santa Barbara, Museum of Art, Afro, 1958

Literature

Cesare Brandi, Afro, Rome 1977, p. 177, no. 71, illustrated
Mario Graziani, Afro: Catalogo Generale Ragionato, Rome 1997, p. 122, no. 288, illustrated in colour