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GPC-2634

Untitled

Collage on paper

70 x 50 cm

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

Private collection

Figure: Resting Satyr, Roman copy of the 4th century BC original by Praxiteles, marble, h 170 cm, Musei Capitolini, 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. 209, fig. 108 (“Marble Faun”).
Background image:
Cleopatra Pool, Hierapolis-Pamukkale; reproduction from Roloff Beny Interprets in Photographs Pleasure of Ruins by Rose Macaulay (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977), p. 9, “Columns under water at Hierapolis, Turkey”.

1982 Paris, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Giulio Paolini. Hierapolis, 20 November - 22 December.
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 26/06/2026