MATERIALS: Paletot and foam rubber on wooden easel, sheet of paper. Painting: tempera and iron hanger on paper
DIMENSIONS: Approx. 191.5 × 115.5 × 63 cm
Screen: 69.5 × 99.5 cm
Easel: 143 × 74 × 63 cm
Paper: 73 × 115.5 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_1990_581
A wall-hung clothes hanger, screwed into the centre of a screen-drawing from 1957 on which the artist’s paletot hangs, partially obscured by a large sheet of white paper folded over it. The round base of a wooden trestle sticks out from under the coat, padded to sugget an anthropomorphic character. A self-portrait of the artist, his clothing and history (Schermo-Disegno, 1957), the work opened the ‘Interno’ exhibition at the Anna D’Ascanio Gallery in Rome, and ‘Interno/Esterno’ at the Galleria Carini in Florence (inv. 3760).
1990, Rome, Galleria Anna D’Ascanio, Fabio Mauri: Interno, 9 March – 21 April.
1990, Florence, Galleria Carini, Fabio Mauri: Interno / Esterno, 19 May – July (travelling: 1990, Rome).
Fabio Mauri. Interno / Esterno, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Anna D’Ascanio, Rome and Galleria Carini, Florence, edited by Lara-Vinca Masini, Alberto Boatto (Rome / Florence, 1990), p. 13 (ill.).
Francesca Alfano Miglietti, Arte Pericolosa (Milan: Prearo Editore, 1991), p. 99 (ill.).
