Sale: 22 / Online Sale, Aug. 15. 2024 → Lot 123001645
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123001645
Mimmo Rotella
La nera, 1958.
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 20,700 Sold:
€ 20,574 / $ 23,660 (incl. surcharge)
123001645
Mimmo Rotella
La nera, 1958.
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 20,700 Sold:
€ 20,574 / $ 23,660 (incl. surcharge)
La nera. Um 1958.
Decollage. Torn posters and packing paper.
Signed in lower right. Dated, titled and with direction arrow on the reverse, presumably by a hand other than that of the artist. 100 x 72 cm (39.3 x 28.3 in), the full sheet.
[SM].
• This work is based on advertising posters glued on top of each other, decollaged by Rotella, the entire surface consists of parts and fragments.
• He has been working with the decollage of torn posters since the 1950s.
• This medium is Mimmo Rotella's own creative achievement and was inspired by Cubism and Kurt Schwitters.
• The use of advertising posters, the visual companions of everyday urban life, is a European position on American Pop Art.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Reckermann, Cologne.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in the 1970s)
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
In good condition. Minimally soiled. Cardboard slighgtly wavy. The irregularities of the paper are in the work's nature.
Decollage. Torn posters and packing paper.
Signed in lower right. Dated, titled and with direction arrow on the reverse, presumably by a hand other than that of the artist. 100 x 72 cm (39.3 x 28.3 in), the full sheet.
[SM].
• This work is based on advertising posters glued on top of each other, decollaged by Rotella, the entire surface consists of parts and fragments.
• He has been working with the decollage of torn posters since the 1950s.
• This medium is Mimmo Rotella's own creative achievement and was inspired by Cubism and Kurt Schwitters.
• The use of advertising posters, the visual companions of everyday urban life, is a European position on American Pop Art.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Reckermann, Cologne.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in the 1970s)
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
In good condition. Minimally soiled. Cardboard slighgtly wavy. The irregularities of the paper are in the work's nature.
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