Tre colori, 1977
GPO-0343
Three Colours
Coloured pencils on primed canvas
100 x 200 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, upper stretcher bar, right: “Giulio Paolini Tre colori 1977”
Private collection, Dobbiaco
The large squared lettering, outlined in coloured pencils on the primed canvas, transcribe the name of the author, the title, and the date of the work itself: “Giulio Paolini" (pink), "Tre colori" (blue), "1976” (green).
The work is part of a group of works made between 1976 and 1977, many of which on paper, characterized by the systematic transcription of the anagraphic data of the work itself so as to generate a cryptographic modular drawing (GPO-0343, GPO-0347, GPO-0370, GPC-0445, GPC-0416, GPC-0418, GPC-0420, GPC-0423, GPC-0448).
• | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 343 p. 353, col. repr. (erroneously dated “1976”). |