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Di un quadro del 1961, 1969
GPO-0181
On a Painting from 1961
Pencil on canvas painted with tempera
40 x 30 cm
Present whereabouts unknown
The surface of an unfinished painting from 1961 – a canvas painted with white tempera and squared with ink in an orthogonal grid with relative diagonals – is entirely blackened in pencil. In the artist’s words: “The hand traces the surface of a canvas, painted eight years earlier”.1
1 G. Paolini in Giulio Paolini: Vedo, exhibition catalogue, Turin, Galleria Notizie, 1970, n. pag.
| 1970 | Rome, QUI arte contemporanea, Giulio Paolini. Vedo, 20 January - 7 February, cited in the checklist of exhibited works, not repr. |
| 1970 | Turin, Galleria Notizie, Giulio Paolini. Vedo, 18 February - 20 March, cited in the checklist of exhibited works, not repr. |
| • | G. Paolini in Giulio Paolini. Vedo, exhibition catalogue, Turin, Galleria Notizie, 1970; republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), p. 307. |
| • | T. Trini, “Giulio Paolini, un decennio. Parte prima: Il vero e il visibile”, in Data 3, no. 7-8, (Milan), Summer, 1973, p. 67, not repr.; republished in Tommaso Trini. Mezzo secolo di arte intera. Scritti 1964-2014, edited by L. Cerizza (Milan: Johan & Levi Editore, 2016), p. 107, not repr.). |
| • | Giulio Paolini, vol. Figures/Intentions (Villeurbanne: Le Nouveau Musée, 1984), repr. p. 10. |
| • | Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), repr. p. 307. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 181 p. 196, repr. |
| • | L. Iamurri, Giulio Paolini. Teresa nella parte di Giovanna d’Arco in prigione (tavola ottica), 1969. In collezione 5 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2018), p. 60, repr. p. 58. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 28/02/2025
