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Senza titolo (Paetus and Arria), 1982

GPC-0618

Untitled (Paetus and Arria)

Collage on paper

50 x 70 cm

Signed and dated on the verso, centre: “Giulio Paolini / 1982”

Private collection

Ludovisi Gaul (The Galatian Suicide), 1st century BC Roman copy of a Hellenistic original, marble, h 211 cm, Museo nazionale di Palazzo Altemps, Rome; reproduction from Francis Haskell, Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), p. 283, fig. 149 (“Paetus and Arria”).
Image of the ruins from Rose Macaulay,
The Pleasure of Ruins (London: Thames and Hudson, 1977), p. 72.

1982 Paris, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Giulio Paolini. Hierapolis, 20 November - 22 December.
G. Paolini, R. Denizot, De bouche à oreille / Hearsay (Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1982), repr. n. pag.
G. Paolini, Voix off (Mâcon: Éditions W, 1986), repr. p. 80 (as “Sextus Marius”).
Entry by Ilaria Bernardi and Maddalena Disch, 25/06/2026