Solare

Details

Mario Schifano (1934-1998)
Solare
signed, titled and dated '"Solare" Schifano 1962' (on the reverse)
enamel on paper laid down on canvas
60 x 41 1/8in. (152.5 x 104.4cm.)
Executed in 1970

Provenance

Private Collection, Italy.

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.

Further Details

This work is recorded in the Archivio Mario Schifano, Rome, under no. 02246120531.

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'He lay his color on the canvas without worrying about uniformity and precision, even maintaining drippings, gestural expression and traces of dirt to point out that this was in any case painting.[] He was like Rothko too: he countered contemplation with vitalism, and the achievement of purity with the anxiety of erratic and restless experimentation'

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