Lot 76
  • 76

MARIO SCHIFANO | Compagni Compagni

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 EUR
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Description

  • Mario Schifano
  • Compagni Compagni
  • smalto e vernice spray su tela
  • cm 120x100
  • Eseguito nel 1968

Provenance

Giorgio Marconi, Milano
Galleria Il Centro, Napoli
Ivi acquistato dall'attuale proprietario nei primi anni Settanta

Exhibited

Napoli, Galleria Il Centro, Mario Schifano, 1970

Condition

This work is in generally good overall condition. The canvas is slightly wavy lower right and lower left. There are minor traces of dirt along the lower edge and towards the centre of the left edge. There are light traces of underneath craquelures along the lower right edge. There are few shallow scratches by the head of the left silhouette where there are a few thin craquelures as well, by the head of the right silhouette and towards the centre of the right edge. There are three pin-pointed holes along the right edge. No traces of retouching appear to be visible under UV light.
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Catalogue Note

“La strada dell’ideologia che è enunciata nella serie Compagni Compagni potrebbe far pensare ad una conversione tardiva ai modelli della rivoluzione culturale. Ma, interpretando così, ci si sbaglierebbe […] Schifano di fatto è all’interno di una concezione profondamente romantica dell’artista che con una capacità di invenzione altissima impersona la propria figura di costruttore, di raccontatore”. Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, L’analisi e lo schermo, in Mario Schifano catalogo generale, Parma 1974

"The path of the ideology that is enunciated in the Compagni Compagni series could make one think of a late conversion to the models of the cultural revolution. But it would be wrongful to interpret in this way [...] Schifano is in fact within a deeply romantic conception of the artist who, endowed with a very high inventive capacity, embodies his own role as a builder, as a storyteller ".



Opera registrata presso l'Archivio Mario Schifano, Roma, con il n. 03581171111