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Théâtre de l’Odéon, 1987

Archive number

GPC-0736

Technique

Collage on paper

Dimensions

50 x 70 cm

Inscriptions by the artist

Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, centre: “Théâtre de l’Odéon / Giulio Paolini / 1987’”

Collection

Private collection, Turin

Sources

• Painting portraying the Piazza della Rotonda with the Pantheon, Rome.
• Engraving portraying the Théâtre de l’Odéon, Paris.

Bibliography

•	G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. p. 237 (as“Théatre de l’Odeon (con Roberta)”).
•	Giulio Paolini. Il “Teatro” dell’opera, exhibition catalogue, Pesaro, Galleria Franca Mancini (Ravenna: Agenzia Editoriale Essegi, 1991), repr. 40 (erroneously dated “1986”).
•	L. de Pinto, “’Scene di conversazione’ tra Giulio Paolini e Carlo Quartucci: dalla collaborazione sulla scena alla teatralità dell’opera”, in Critica d’arte 78, no. 5-6 (Lucca), January-June, 2020, p. 106, not repr.

Entry by Maddalena Disch, 23/10/2026