Osvaldo Licini

Venezia, XXIX Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, 1958
Livorno, Gelleria d’Arte Modigliani, 1958
Madrid, Ateneo de Madrid, 1961
Firenze, Galleria di Palazzo Libri, Concretismo, 1964, illustrato
Torino, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, 1968-1969, n. 86, tav. 59
Bologna, Palazzo dell’Archiginnasio, 1969
Ferrara, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti,1980, tav. 67
Roma, Galleria I’Isola, 1982, tav. 12
Piacenza, Studio Denise Fiorani, 1986, illustrato

Giuseppe Marchiori, I cieli segreti di Osvaldo Licini, Venezia 1968, tav. 138 (con tecnica errata, datato 1939)
Giuseppe Malatesta, Osvaldo Licini, Dipinti e disegni, Milano 1988, p. 63, n. 47, illustrato a colori (tecnica e misure errate, datato 1945)

This work appears to be in generally good overall condition. There are some tiny losses along the edges and by the upper and lower left corners. There are very minor craquelures along the upper left edge and by the upper right corner. Along the lower edge there are a yellowed trace of glue to the right and a pin-hole to the left. There are three tiny bumps with pin-pointed losses to the centre of the lateral and upper margins due to the screws of a previous frame. There is a light browning lower left. No traces of retouching appear to be visible under UV light.
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"Licini è stato in ogni sua manifestazione, sensibilità troppo grande per scendere ai compromessi del bon ton pittorico, energia straordinaria capace come per miracolo di concentrarsi in superfici minime, e lì sopra costruire un mondo, infinito."

"Licini has been in all his manifestations, too great sensitivity to come to the compromises of the pictorial bon ton, an extraordinary energy capable, as if miraculously of concentrating itself in minimal surfaces on which to construct an infinte world."

Walter Guadagnini