INV. No 56
Macchia-Disegno
1958
ON CANVAS OR ON WOOD
ENGLISH TITLE:
Spot-Drawing
MATERIALS: Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 42.2 × 52 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated on the recto, lower right: ‘mauri 58’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Achille Mauri, Milan
CATALOGUE: PT_1958_56
MATERIALS: Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 42.2 × 52 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated on the recto, lower right: ‘mauri 58’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Achille Mauri, Milan
CATALOGUE: PT_1958_56
NOTE:
Painting on canvas made at the time when Mauri was working on his first Schermi (Screens). Here, the Expressionist figurative style of his early works was giving way to an abstract experimentation focused on matter and gesture.
Exhibitions:
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.
2025, Milan, Galleria Gracis, Il gruppo Crack, 20 March – 20 June, curated by Laura Cherubini.
Bibliography:
Il gruppo Crack, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Gracis, Milan, edited by Laura Cherubini (Imola: Manfredi Edizioni, 2025), pp. 74, 84, 97 (ill.).
