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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.
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 06/05/2026