LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil, mixed media on paper, laid down on canvas

Measurements:

15.35 in. (39.00 cm.) (height) by 16.14 in. (41.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed Afro

Condition:

framed

Exhibited:

Afro, Galleria Mazzoleni, 9 October 2010 – 15 January 2011, exhibition catalogue page 77 with ill. (curated by Luca Beatrice)

Literature:

Maestri Moderni e Contemporanei, antologia scelta, 2010 no. 22 page 23 Afro’s painting attracts us, above all, with its sensual qualities: colour, rhythm, spatial relations, light effects. Afro naturally finds profound inspiration in the inheritance derived from his Venetian past (...). But at the root of his art an individual sensibility always reveals itself: it is his infallible instinct in dealing with his artistic means, capable of instilling in his paintings those qualities of immediacy, grace and happiness that today qualify Afro as the pure lyrical poet of contemporary painting (James Johnson Sweeney, Afro, Edizioni d’Arte Moderna, 1961)

Provenance:

Galleria Mazzoleni, Turin Galleria Tornabuoni, Florence Private Collection, Milan