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GPC-0615

Untitled

Collage on paper

50 x 70 cm

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

Fonds national d’art contemporain, CNAP, Yvon Lambert donation to the French State, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris. Long term loan at the Collection Lambert, Avignon

- Ludovisi Mars, 2nd century AD Roman copy of a 4th century BC original, marble, h 156 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. 261, fig. 135 (“Ludovisi Mars”).
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.
1984 Tours, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Les peintres et l’architecture antique. Œuvres des Musées de Tours, XVe-XIXe siècles, œuvres de collections privées, XXe siècle, 2 March - 3 June, no catalogue.
1992 Villeneuve d’Ascq, Musée d’art moderne and Tourcoing, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Yvon Lambert collectionne, 18 January - 20 April 1992, cited in the list of works from the collection no. 224 p. 316 (as “Ludovisi Mars”), not repr.
2019 Avignon, Collection Lambert, Francesco Vezzoli. Le Lacrime Dei Poeti, 2 March - 10 June, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 154, col. repr. pp. 100, 124 (exhibition view).
2023 Avignon, Collection Lambert, Une histoire intime de l’art. Œuvres de la Donation Yvon Lambert, 25 March - 4 June, col. repr. p. 217, cited in the list of works from the collection p. 434.
G. Paolini, R. Denizot, De bouche à oreille / Hearsay (Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1982), repr. n. pag.
Une histoire intime de l’art: Yvon Lambert, une collection, une donation, un lieu (Paris-Avignon: Centre national des arts plastiques, Éditions Dilecta and Collection Lambert, 2023), col. repr. p. 217, cited in the list of works from the collection p. 434.
Entry by Ilaria Bernardi and Maddalena Disch, 25/06/2026