Fantasia del paziente naturale (Fantasy of the Natural Patient)

Details

Mario Schifano (1934-1998)
Fantasia del paziente naturale (Fantasy of the Natural Patient)
enamel on canvas, in three parts
each: 88 3/8 x 43 3/8in. (224.5 x 110cm.)
overall: 88 3/8 x 129 7/8in. (224.5 x 330cm.)
Executed in 1970

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist in the early 1970s and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

Fondazione Mario Schifano (ed.), A) I, Opere su tela 1956-1982, Milan 2007, no. 70/062 (illustrated in colour, p. 127).
Schifano 1934-1998, exh. cat., Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 2008 (illustrated, p. 203).

Exhibited

Conegliano, Palazzo Sarcinelli, Galleria Comunale d'Arte, Schifano. Opere 1957-1997, 1998 (illustrated, p. 123).
Rome, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Ex Fabbrica Peroni, Mario Schifano. Tutto, 2001-2002 (illustrated, pp. 102-103).
Rome, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, Incontri...dalla collezione di Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, 2003 (illustrated in colour, pp. 150-151 and 278).
Naples, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Omaggio a Capodimonte. Da Caravaggio a Picasso, 2007-2008.

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

My husband Michael Sonnabend and I met Mario Schifano in Rome in 1960 through Plinio de Martiis and we were very impressed with his paintings I think it announced many things that came after Pop Art - Minimalism and Conceptual Painting...We proposed to Mario Schifano to represent him in the gallery we intended to open and started paying him a monthly stipend and buying works (I. Sonnabend quoted in G. Lonardi, 'Schifano: between Graziella Lonardi and Ileana Sonnabend, Mario Schifano. Per Esempio, exh. cat., Palazzo Rancani Arroni, Spoleto, 1998, p. 43).

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