INV. No 1811
Gangster
1974
ON PAPER
MATERIALS:
Silkscreen on newspaper
DIMENSIONS: 57 × 46 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, titled and dated vertically on the recto, lower left: ‘mauri’, middle: ‘gangster’, lower right: ‘1974’
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome; Hauser & Wirth
COLLECTION: Private collection
CATALOGUE: PT_1974_1811
DIMENSIONS: 57 × 46 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, titled and dated vertically on the recto, lower left: ‘mauri’, middle: ‘gangster’, lower right: ‘1974’
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome; Hauser & Wirth
COLLECTION: Private collection
CATALOGUE: PT_1974_1811
NOTE:
Screenprint on paper from the Gangster series, composed of around fifty different versions, varying in medium type, colour and finish, reproducing the business card of Al Capone, Chicago gangster and ‘iconic export’ of Italian-American culture. For further exploration of the Gangster series, see inv. 265.
Exhibitions:
2023, Zurich, Hauser & Wirth, Fabio Mauri. Amore mio, 30 September – 23 December, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
