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Studio per “Les fausses confidences”, 1983

GPC-0645

Study for “Les fausses confidences”

Collage on black paper

40 x 30 cm

Private collection, Rome

Jean-Antoine Watteau, L’Indifférent, 1716, oil on wood, 25 x 19 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris; reproduction from L’opera completa di Watteau. Classici dell’arte 21 (Milan: Rizzoli, 1968), plate XI.
Title from the comedy by Pierre de Marivaux,
Les fausses confidences, 1737.

Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Studio Marconi, 1984, repr. n. pag. (as a "detail” of the large-scale work).
V. Bramanti, “Nella rete sospesa delle allusioni”, in Fiera II, no. 7 (Rome), May, 1984, repr. p. 63 (detail).
Coerenza in coerenza. Dall’Arte Povera al 1984, exhibition catalogue, Turin, Mole Antonelliana (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1984), col. repr. no. 6 p. 90 (as a "detail” of the large-scale work, rotated by 90 degrees clockwise).
Del Arte Povera a 1985, exhibition catalogue, Madrid, Palacio de Cristal, Palacio de Velázquez e Parque del Retiro, 1985, col. repr. no. 103 p. 117.
G. Paolini, Voix off (Mâcon: Éditions W, 1986), repr. p. 74 (as “Etude pour ‘Les fausses confidences’”).
In viaggio per l’arte. La Galleria Pieroni 1975-1992, exhibition catalogue, Rome, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Rome: Quodlibet Edizioni, 2025), col. repr. p. 18 (invitation card of the exhibition).
Entry by Ilaria Bernardi and Maddalena Disch, 26/06/2026