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Alfredo Volpi

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Description

  • Alfredo Volpi
  • Concretos (Concrete) 
  • signed 'A Volpi' (on the reverse)
  • tempera on canvas
  • 70.3 by 70 cm. 27 5/8 by 27 3/8 in.
  • Painted circa 1950s

Provenance

Private Collection, Rio de Janeiro (acquired from the artist).  Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1975. 

Exhibited

Campinas, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Volpi: The essential vision, 1976 (illustrated, p. 36). São Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo/ Núcleo Histórico: Antropofagia e História de Canibalismos, 1998 (illustrated).

São Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Tomie Ohtake in the Spiritual Mesh of Brazilian Art: Artist’s 90th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition, 2003-2004 (illustrated, p. 221).

São Paulo, Domingos Giobbi Collection, Arte, uma relação afetiva, 2010 (illustrated, p. 116 n. 145).

Literature

Sonia Saltzein and Silvia Roesler, Volpi, São Paulo, 2000 (illustrated, p. 47). M. Mastrobuno, Alfredo Volpi. Catalog of works 2015 – Centenary of the first painting Special Issue (illustrated, p. 150).