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Studio per “La pittura abbandonata”, 1985

GPC-0682

Study for “La pittura abbandonata”

Pencil on paper, collage on photo print, cut-out

41 x 61 cm

Signed and dated on the verso, centre: “Giulio Paolini / (a Bari, 7 dicembre 1985)”

Private collection

Landscape: Fratelli Alinari, Nemi – Prov. di Roma. Panorama del Lago e della piccola borgata di Genzano, c. 1890, albumen silver print, 21 x 27 cm, Archivi Alinari, Florence (ACA-F-006861-0000).
- Figure: Sleeping Ariadne, 1st-2nd century AD Roman copy of a Hellenistic original, marble, 161 cm, Musei Vaticani, Rome; reproduction from Francis Haskell, Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), p. 185, fig. 96 (“Cleopatra”).

1985 Bari, Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Giulio Paolini. La pittura abbandonata, from 7 December.
2001 San Benedetto del Tronto, Palazzo Bice Piacentini, Palazzina Azzurra, A.B.O. Le arti della critica, 5 May - 18 June, repr. (titled “La pittura abbandonata”), p. XVI.
2008-09 Turin, Giampiero Biasutti Arte moderna e contemporanea, Un certain regard sur Turin, 8 November 2008 - 15 January 2009, repr. p. 55.
Entry by Ilaria Bernardi and Maddalena Disch, 25/06/2026