(Modena 1894–1956 Rome)
Metamorfosi bioplastiche: Apparizioni bioplastiche, 1954, signed, dated, E. Prampolini, 54, mixed media (oil and sand) on board, 80 x 100 cm, framed (AR)

Photo certificate:
Galleria Fonte d’Abisso, Modena archive no. 2151

Provenance:
Emma Reyes Collection, Périgueux
Galleria Fonte d’Abisso, Modena, - Milan (label and stamp on the reverse)
European Private Collection

Exhibition:
Venice, XXVII Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’arte, 19 June- 17 October 1954, Sala XXIV, pp. 159 – 161, (labels on the reverse) Stockholm, Exposition d’Art italienne Moderne a Stuckulm et dans le nord de l’Europe, 1954
Milan, Galleria del Fiore, Prampolini, 19 April - 4 May 1956;
Venice XXIX Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, 14 June - 19 October 1958 (label on the back)
Saint Etienne, Musée d’Art e d’Industrie, Peintres et sculptures italiens du futurisme à nos Jours, 1959, (label on the back; Italian label with wrong title)
Modena, Galleria Fonte d’Abisso, Prampolini. Verso i Polimaterici, 19 - October 1989 – 4 February 1990, exh. cat., Guido Ballo (curator), p. 115, no. 36, p. 77 with ill.
Milan, Galleria Fonte d’Abisso, Prampolii e Burri e la materia attiva, 17 October - 20 December 1990. exh. cat. pp. 44 – 45 with ill.;
Rome, Prampolini. Dal Futurismo all’Informale, XXII Quadriennale d’Arte, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 25 March - 25 May 1992, exh. cat. p. 445, no. 6/P/18 with ill. Mart, Museo di Arte di Trento Rovereto, Trash. Quando rifiuti diventano arte, 11 September 1997 – 11 January 1998, exh. cat. Skira 2006,

Literature:
Filiberto Menna, Enrico Prampolini, De Luca ed. Rome 1967, p. 355, no. 100, cat. 282 with ill.

From an important Private Collection