Da un soggetto

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Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
Da un soggetto
signed 'Rotella' (lower centre); signed and dated 'Rotella/1959' (on the reverse)
décollage on canvas
38¼ x 30¾in. (97 x 78cm.)
Executed in 1959

Provenance

Galleria La Salita, Rome.

Literature

T. Trini, Rotella, Milan 1974 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

'I tear the posters, first from the walls, then from the support: how much style, how much imagination and how many interests accumulate, clash and alternate between the first and last tear. It is not a question from abstract colours being contrasted, but of colours with their own energy, their own spirit, their own vitality, so to speak'. M. Rotella, quoted in E. Prampolini, Art Club, year 1, no. 1, October 1945.

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