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Senza titolo (I colori), 1960

GPO-0002

Untitled (The Colours)

Unprimed canvas, tempera and ink on canvas

35 x 45 cm

Signed and dated on the verso, lower stretcher bar, centre: “Giulio Paolini 1960”

Luigi and Peppino Agrati Collection – Intesa Sanpaolo

Gift of Luigi and Peppino Agrati, 2018

The left half of a canvas painted with white tempera is covered with a thin unprimed canvas and reveals a series of "colour tests", while the right half shows a series of almost illegible "writing tests", arranged so that they correspond to the colours and referring to their names.

2025 Milan, Gallerie d’Italia, Una collezione inattesa. La Nuova Arte degli Anni Sessanta e un Omaggio a Robert Rauschenberg, 30 May - 5 October, no catalogue.
G. Celant, Un folle amore. La Collezione Luigi e Peppino Agrati (Milan: Skira editore, 2002), col. repr. p. 280, entry p. 403 cat. no. 387 (incompletely titled “Senza titolo”).
Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), col. repr. p. 43.
M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 2 p. 50, col. repr.
L’arte moderna in Intesa Sanpaolo. La collezione Luigi e Peppino Agrati, edited by C. Pirovano and F. Tedeschi (Milan: Electa, 2012), cat. no. 361 p. 296 entry by K. McManus, col. repr.
F. Belloni, Giulio Paolini. Disegno geometrico, 1960. In collezione 6 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2019), pp. 42, 44, col. repr. p. 44.
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 12/06/2025