Lot 284
  • 284

Mimmo Rotella

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Mimmo Rotella
  • La Tazza di Caffé
  • signed; signed, titled and dated 1962 on the reverse
  • décollage on canvas
  • 81.3 by 61cm.; 32 by 24in.

Provenance

Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris
Sale: Sotheby's, Milan, Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, 27 November 2001, Lot 278
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, New Realists, 1962, no, 27, illustrated

Literature

Paul Restany, Rotella: dal Décollage alla Nuova Immagine, Milan 1963, illustrated
Germano Celant, Mimmo Rotella, Milan 2007, p. 211, no. 207, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is softer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. The canvas is slightly slack. There is some light wear in places along the left edge and to upper and lower left corner tips. All surface irregularities in the décollage are inherent to the artist's working process.
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