Lot 168
  • 168

Mimmo Rotella

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
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Description

  • Mimmo Rotella
  • A
  • signed and dated 59; signed, inscribed and dated 1959 on the reverse
  • torn posters laid down on canvas
  • 46 x 33,5 cm; 18 1/16 x 13 3/16 in.
  • Executed in 1959.

Provenance

Private collection, France

Exhibited

Saint Etienne, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Beautés volées – Dessous d'affiches, affiches lacérées, décollages de Dufrêne, Hains, Rotella, Villeglé, 4 June - 29 July 1976; catalogue, no. 30, p. 34

Literature

François Pluchart, Pop Art & Cie, 1960-1970, Paris, 1971, p. 158, illustrated in colour
Mimmo Rotella, Catalogo Ragionato, Primo Volume 1944-1961, Milan, 2016, no. 1959 092, p. 659, illustrated in colour

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration. This work is in good original condition.
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