Antologia (11/9/1974), 1974
GPO-0274
Anthology (11/9/1974)
Reversed canvas and drawings on paper applied to a primed canvas
80 x 120 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, upper stretcher bar, left: “Giulio Paolini / Antologia (11/9/1974)”
Private collection, Monza
Two differently sized canvases facing each other hold down two crumpled drawings and three drawings with variations on the theme of a framed rectangle (linear framing of a blank rectangle, framing of a blackened rectangle, blackened framing of a blank rectangle).
The same title (at times followed by a different date) was used for a series of eleven works made between 1973 and 1974, each of which cites an anthology of one or more works (GPO-0258, GPO-0259, GPO-0260, GPO-0262, GPO-0263, from GPO-0267 to GPO-0270, GPO-0273, GPO-0274).
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 274 p. 285, repr. |