LOT DETAILS

Materials:

acrylic and burlap on canvas

Measurements:

59.02 in. (149.90 cm.) (height) by 50.98 in. (129.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed on the reverse

Exhibited:

Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Vitalità nell’arte, 1959, n.p., illustrated Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Polariteit het appolinische en het dionysische in de kunst, 1961, n.p., no. 23, illustrated New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting, 2015, p. 174, no. 30, illustrated in color

Literature:

Cesare Brandi, Burri, Rome 1963, p. 213, no. 271, illustrated Riccardo Tettamanti and Giorgio Verzotti, Tre decenni di Avanguardia dalla raccolta di Riccardo Tettamanti, Milan 1988, n.p., illustrated in color Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini, Ed., Burri, Contributi al catalogo sistematico, Città di Castello 1990, p. 99, no. 393, illustrated in color

Provenance:

Galleria Levi, Milan Paolo Marinotti, Milan Riccardo Cebulli, Milan Riccardo Tettamanti, Milan Christie’s, London, Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, 8 February 2007, Lot 6 (consigned by the above) Private Collection (acquired from the above sale) Thence by descent to the present owner