MATERIALS: Collage and mixed media on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 57 × 44 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated on the recto, lower right: ‘mauri 60’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Achille Mauri, Milan
CATALOGUE: C_1960_13
Mixed-media painting on canvas with collage inserts, featuring the title of the comic strip ‘Popeye on the Ship of Ghosts’ against a red background, with black ink interventions such as the central inscription ‘THE end’.
1969, Rome, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Fabio Mauri 1959-1969, opening 1 July, curated by Cesare Vivaldi.
1994, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Fabio Mauri. Opere e Azioni 1954-1994, 21 June – 5 October, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Cossu.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
2023-2024, Rivoli (Turin), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Fabio Mauri. Experiments in the Existence of Evil, 16 December 2023 – 24 March 2024, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Sara Codutti, Marianna Vecellio.
2025, Milan, Galleria Gracis, Il gruppo Crack, 20 March – 20 June, curated by Laura Cherubini.
Fabio Mauri, exhibition catalogue, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Rome, edited by Cesare Vivaldi (Rome: Studio d’Arte Toninelli, 1969), p. 32 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. Opere e Azioni 1954-1994, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Cossu (Milan / Rome: Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori / Carte Segrete, 1994), p. 68 (ill.).
Laura Cherubini, “Drawings”, in Fabio Mauri. Ideology and Memory, edited by Studio Fabio Mauri (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2012), p. 13 (ill.).
Il gruppo Crack, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Gracis, Milan, edited by Laura Cherubini (Imola: Manfredi Edizioni, 2025), pp. 73, 87, 98 (ill.).
