(Rome 1938–1987)
Rosso Nero n. 44, 1961, titled, signed and dated twice Tano Festa, Rosso Nero n. 44, 1961 on the stretcher, enamel tempera, wood, paper on canvas, 150.5 x 170 cm, on stretcher

Photo certificates:
Studio Soligo - Archivio Storico Tano Festa, Rome, archive no. RMS611501709220168
Archivio Generale dell’Opera di Tano Festa, curated by Anita Festa, Pernumia, 19 October 2016, archive no. A1514/1660

Provenance:
Associazione Culturale L’Attico, Rome
Fabio Sargentini Collection (acquired from the artist in 1967)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Rome, Minimalia, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 8 January - 6 April 1998 (stamp on the reverse)
New York, Minimalia: An Italian Vision in 20th Century Art, MoMA P. S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 10 October 1999 – 2 January 2000, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, exh. cat. 158 with ill. (loaned by Associazione Culturale L’Attico, Rome,
label on the reverse)

In 1950 I started creating monochrome paintings with strips, but I was no longer thinking about the paintings of other artists; the stimulus for my works came from the things that surrounded me, the things I saw, such as the street and pedestrian crossings, the environment and the objects. Subsequently I partly replaced paper strips with rigid wooden strips, as is the case with these red and black paintings, but I was never interested in materials as expressive means.

Tano Festa in an interview with Giorgio De Marchis,
Catalogue of the exhibition held at Galleria La Salita, April 1967

Photo certificate issued by Studio Soligo - Archivio Storico Tano Festa, Rome, archive no. RMS611501709220168

The registration in the Archivio Generale dell’Opera di Tano Festa, curated by Anita Festa has been required for this lot.

Provenance:
Associazione Culturale L’Attico, Rome
Fabio Sargentini Collection (acquired from the artist in 1967)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Rome, Minimalia, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 8 January - 6 April 1998 (stamp on the reverse)
New York, Minimalia: An Italian Vision in 20th Century Art, MoMA P. S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 10 October 1999 – 2 January 2000, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, exh. cat. 158 with ill. (loaned by Associazione Culturale L’Attico, Rome,
label on the reverse)

In 1950 I started creating monochrome paintings with strips, but I was no longer thinking about the paintings of other artists; the stimulus for my works came from the things that surrounded me, the things I saw, such as the street and pedestrian crossings, the environment and the objects. Subsequently I partly replaced paper strips with rigid wooden strips, as is the case with these red and black paintings, but I was never interested in materials as expressive means.

Tano Festa in an interview with Giorgio De Marchis,
Catalogue of the exhibition held at Galleria La Salita, April 1967