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Studio per “Liber veritatis”, 1979

GPC-0519

Study for “Liber veritatis”

Pencil, red pencil and collage on paper

Two parts 50 x 50 cm each, overall dimensions 50 x 100 cm

Private collection, Milan

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Œdipe explique l’énigme du sphinx, 1808-27, oil on canvas, 189 x 144 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris; reproduction from L’opera completa di Ingres. Classici dell’arte 19 (Milan: Rizzoli, 1968), plate VII.
Image of the eye from
Opere di G. G. Winckelmann, prima edizione italiana completa 13 (Prato: Fratelli Giachetti, 1830-34), plate XXV, no. 60 (“Occhio di un Bacco”).
Title from Claude Lorrain, Liber Veritatis, 1636-82, British Museum, London.

1979 London, Lisson Gallery, Giulio Paolini. Liber veritatis, 20 March - 13 April.
1987 Meymac, Centre d’art contemporain, Abbaye Saint-André, Les années 70. Les Années Mémoire. Archéologie du savoir et de l’être, 11 July - 27 September, cited in the checklist of exhibited works 149, not repr.
Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1980, repr. p. 42 (with incorrect technique).
Venti anni a Basilea. Baechler Barcelò Baselitz Beuys Boetti Bowes Brown Buren Fabro Gilbert & George Kounellis Longobardi Merz Paladino Paolini Rauschenberg Taafee Tatafiore, Twombly Warhol, special issue of the journal Napoli e dintorni. Informatore d’arte 16 (Naples: Lucio Amelio editore), June, 1989, col. repr. (with incorrect dimensions “125 x 75 cm”); published on the occasion of ART Basel, 13 June 1989.
Entry by Ilaria Bernardi and Maddalena Disch, 12/06/2026