La vendita continua (The Sale Continues)

Details

Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
La vendita continua (The Sale Continues)
signed, titled and dated '"LA VENDITA CONTINUA" 1961, Dicembre Rotella' (on the reverse)
31½ x 49¼in. (80 x 125cm.)
décollage on canvas
Executed in 1961

Provenance

Galleria Editalia, Rome.
Galleria La Salita, Rome.
Acquired from the above and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

T. Trini, Rotella, Milan 1974 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
Un disegno dell'arte. Ultime avanguardie (1957-1971), exh. cat., Rome, Galleria La Salita, 1983.
A. Tugnoli, La scuola di Piazza del Popolo, Florence 2004 (illustrated, p. 52).
G. De Marchis, Album di viaggio in quarant'anni di arte italiana 1960-2000, Turin 2005 (illustrated, p. 78).
G. Celant, Mimmo Rotella, Milan 2007, no. 188 (illustrated in colour, p. 202).

Exhibited

Milan, Rotonda di via Besana, Mimmo Rotella, 1975 (illustrated, unpaged).
Rome, Tridente Due, Artisti e movimenti in Italia, 1987 (illustrated, p. 42).
Faenza, Galleria Comunale d'Arte, Omaggio a Gian Tomaso Liverani gentiluomo faentino e gallerista d'avanguardia, 2003 (illustrated, unpaged).
Lucca, Fondazione Ragghianti, L'alibi dell'oggetto. Morandi e gli sviluppi della natura morta in Italia, 2007-2008 (detail illustrated in colour on the cover).

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

I invented the dcollages in Rome, in 1953, but I only showed them to the public for the first time in February 1954. It was the art critic and philologue Emilio Villa, who was the first to discover the lacerated posters. He came to my house...one night saw my "papers" and was stunned. He told me that I was doing very important things, and that I had invented a new artistic language (M. Rotella, quoted in Mimmo Rotella Retrospective, exh. cat., Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, 1999-2000, p. 135).

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