DIMENSIONS: 39.7 × 55.8 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed on the recto, lower right: ‘mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Galleria La Nuvola, Rome; collezione privata; Casa aste Christie’s, (Milan, May 2010)
COLLECTION: Achille Mauri, Milan
CATALOGUE: C_1959_775
Amongst these faintly discernible letters and marks, on a sheet of Fabriano ‘Extra Strong’ paper, some words can be made out: ‘The End’ above a cross, and a circled ‘nessuno’ (nobody). These inscriptions are covered by a brush-painted ‘X’. Struck through to symbolise rejection, barely visible words are further concealed by a paper strip overlaying the cross, reiterating the phrase ‘The End’ in black transfer letters.
2023, Zurich, Hauser & Wirth, Fabio Mauri. Amore mio, 30 September – 23 December, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
Almanacco Letterario Bompiani 1960, Bompiani, Milan, 1959, n.p. (ill.).
Franco Di Matteo, “Fabio Mauri. The End”, in Tabula rasa, no. 2, L'Aquila, January–March 2010, p. 3 (ill.).
Christie’s: Arte moderna e contemporanea (Milan, 2010), no. 7, p. 6 (ill.).
Laura Cherubini, “Drawings”, in Fabio Mauri. Ideology and Memory, edited by Studio Fabio Mauri (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2012), pp. 14–15 (ill.).
Mario Codognato, “The italian hours”, in Willem De Kooning e l’Italia, exhibition catalogue, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, edited by Mario Codognato, Gary Garrels (Venice: Marsilio Arte, 2024), p. 31 (ill.).
