20th Century Italian Art

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Giulio Paolini

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
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Description

  • Giulio Paolini
  • Vivo O Morto
  • pencil and collage on two canvases, in artist's frame
  • each canvas: 170 by 130cm.; 67 by 51¼in.
  • overall: 170 by 260cm.; 67 by 102 3/8 in.
  • Executed in 1998-99.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

Exhibited

Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Giulio Paolini: Da Oggi A Ieri, 1999, pp. 9, 37, no. 14, illustrated

Catalogue Note

This work is registered in the Archivio Giulio Paolini, Turin, and will be included in the forthcoming Giulio Paolini Catalogue Raisonné

"There, it's come. Unannounced, suddenly, unexpectedly, here is the work, in front of our eyes. Maybe it has been here for a while already, unnoticed and on the sidelines, waiting to be recognized."

 

(Giulio Paolini cited in Exhibition Catalogue, Turin, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Arte Povera in Collezione, 2000, p. 199)