INV. No 271
Gangster
1974
ON PAPER
MATERIALS:
Silkscreen on paper
DIMENSIONS: 99.7 × 70 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Dated and signed on the recto, lower left: ‘74’, lower right: ‘mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1974_271
DIMENSIONS: 99.7 × 70 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Dated and signed on the recto, lower left: ‘74’, lower right: ‘mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1974_271
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.
