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Mimmo Rotella

Estimate
130,000 - 180,000 GBP
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Description

  • Mimmo Rotella
  • Passaporto di Poverta
  • signed, titled, dated 1959 and inscribed Dal Passaporto di Poverta alla Tessera del Dalai Lhama per Bill nell'anno novo Realista, Rome 1-1-63 on the reverse

  • décollage on canvas

  • 81 by 87cm.; 31 7/8 by 34 1/4 in.

Provenance

William E. Demby Jr., Sag Harbor, New York
Il Segue Galleria d'Arte, Rome
Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris
Sale: Sotheby's, London, Contemporary Art, 8 February 2007, Lot 186
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Rome, Galleria Mucciaccia, Mimmo Rotella, 2007, p. 45, no. 12, illustrated in colour
Rende (CS), Museo d'arte dell'Otto e Novecento, Around Rotella. L'artista e il suo tempo, 2008 - 2009, p. 59, illustrated in colour

Literature

Pierre Restany, Rotella: Dal Décollage alla Nuova Immagine, Milan 1963, p. 24
Pierre Restany, Rotella, I Quaderni de 'Nouveau Realisme', Milan 1963, no. 24

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is ageing to the paper, inherent to the artist's choice of medium. There is minor wear to all four corner tips. All further irregularities are original to the artist's choice of medium and working process.
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Catalogue Note

"Posters are important not only for themselves but also for their topicality. Their colours acquire new meaning and today the 'images' get new meaning for me as they introduce a really new element in my everyday relation with the street. Colour's emotional mainspring triggers my willingness to lacerate and starts the complex chain of facts that find completion in my work."

Mimmo Rotella cited in a letter to the gallery owner Guido le Noci, 1961, from Pierre Restany, Mimmo Rotella: dal Décollage alla Nuova Immagine, Milan 1963