Lot 277
  • 277

Piero Dorazio

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Piero Dorazio
  • In Croce III
  • signed, titled and dated 1969 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas

  • 69 by 69 in.
  • 175 by 175 cm.

Provenance

Marlborough Galeria d'Arte, Rome
Galeria Alfieri, Venice
Martino Gallerie, Torino
Marlborough Godard, Toronto
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Hobarth, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; Newcastle City Art Gallery; Perth, Western Austrian Art Gallery, Sydney, Gallery of New South Wales, Italian Painting 1940-1960, 1971-1972 

Literature

M. Volpi Orlandini, Dorazio, Venice, 1977, cat. no. 1097, illustrated

Condition

The work is in very good condition overall. The canvas in not lined. There is a 1/2 inch indentation to the lower left edge in the pink element. The canvas is buckling slightly along the upper edge of the canvas. There is minor surface soiling throughout. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

Light verily exists in Dorazio,
And will become
A kind of reality in painting
Thanks to Dorazio,
A concentration and fixation on
A point of light
Re-emerging from abysses,
Repeated to infinity.

Approximate translation of a poem by Giuseppe Ungaretti, translated for and supplied by Dore Ashton in her introduction to the catalogue Piero Dorazio, Recent Paintings, New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, May 6 – June 30, 2004.