Mimmo Rotella *
(Catanzaro 1918–2006 Milan)
Untitled, 1959, signed and dated 59, décollage, posters, glue on canvas, 43 x 35 cm, framed
This work is accompanied by a photo certificate signed by the artist in 1989
Provenance:
European Private Collection
Literature:
G. Celant, Mimmo Rotella. Catalogo ragionato. Volume primo 1944–1961, Skira, Milan 2016, no. 1959 066 with ill.
“At first when I started to tear off posters in the street and glue them to the canvas, the result was works which belonged to a haptic or abstract mould. Then, slowly, the figure reappeared: images from advertisements and the cinema fascinated me. I thought to myself: look how beautiful, now I’m going to take it and exhibit it. It could be a movie star but also a piece of cheese, like the one covering almost the entire surface of one of my paintings that was bought by Georges Pompidou’s wife. At the root of the New Realism and my works is the ultimate gesture of the appropriation of the image.”
Mimmo Rotella
16.05.2018 - 19:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 27,940.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 24,000.- to EUR 32,000.-
Mimmo Rotella *
(Catanzaro 1918–2006 Milan)
Untitled, 1959, signed and dated 59, décollage, posters, glue on canvas, 43 x 35 cm, framed
This work is accompanied by a photo certificate signed by the artist in 1989
Provenance:
European Private Collection
Literature:
G. Celant, Mimmo Rotella. Catalogo ragionato. Volume primo 1944–1961, Skira, Milan 2016, no. 1959 066 with ill.
“At first when I started to tear off posters in the street and glue them to the canvas, the result was works which belonged to a haptic or abstract mould. Then, slowly, the figure reappeared: images from advertisements and the cinema fascinated me. I thought to myself: look how beautiful, now I’m going to take it and exhibit it. It could be a movie star but also a piece of cheese, like the one covering almost the entire surface of one of my paintings that was bought by Georges Pompidou’s wife. At the root of the New Realism and my works is the ultimate gesture of the appropriation of the image.”
Mimmo Rotella
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| Auction: | Contemporary Art I |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 16.05.2018 - 19:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 05.05. - 16.05.2018 |
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