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GPO-0003

Untitled

Unprimed canvas, stretcher, paper painted with tempera, coloured tissue-paper

35 x 43 cm

Signed and dated on the verso, lower stretcher bar, right: "Giulio Paolini / 1960"

Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini, Turin

Gift of the artist, 25 October 2012, archive no. GPO-0003

A thin unprimed canvas, which is hardened with polyvinyl acetate glue, is stretched across three sides of a stretcher closed off on the back by a sheet of paper. The canvas serves as a semi-transparent container for a packed multitude of fragments of coloured tissue paper or tissue paper painted in tempera in a variety of colours, partially emerging from the upper part of the painting.

1999 Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Giulio Paolini. Da oggi a ieri, 8 May - 25 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 31 p. 38, not repr.
2003 Milan, Fondazione Prada, Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, 29 October - 18 December, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 397, col. repr. p. 41.
2017 Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Colori. L’emozione dei colori nell’arte, 14 March - 23 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 320, not repr.; exhibited at Castello di Rivoli.
G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), pp. 17, 20, repr. no. 3 p. 19 (cropped at top); republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by Id. (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), pp. 78, 96; reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019).
Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), col. repr. p. 190.
A. Zevi, Peripezie del dopoguerra nell’arte italiana (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2005), p. 287, not repr.
E. Volpato, “Iconografie della malinconia”, in Collezioni. Volume terzo: Allestimento 2011-2013, edited by D. Eccher (Turin: GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea and Umberto Allemandi & C., 2012), pp. 209-210, not repr.
M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 3 p. 50, col. repr.
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 29/01/2026

Total records found: 2605

GPC-0001
Pencil on torn paper
35 x 50 cm
Collection of the artist
GPC-0002
Black ink on squared paper
35 x 50 cm
Collection of the artist
GPC-0003
Black ink on squared paper
43 x 41 cm
Private collection, courtesy Fondazione Marconi, Milan
GPC-0004
Black ink on squared paper
35 x 50 cm
Collection of the artist
GPC-0005
Black ink on squared paper
32 x 26 cm
Lorenzo and Marilena Bonomo Collection
GPC-0006
Black ink on squared paper
40 x 27 cm
Baldassarre Collection
GPC-0007
Black ink on squared paper
43 x 55 cm
Present whereabouts unknown
GPC-0008
Black ink on squared paper
25.9 x 25.9 cm
Private collection, Turin
GPC-0009
Torn tracing paper applied to white paper
34 x 23.3 cm
Collection of the artist
GPC-0010
Primed canvas mounted front and reverse on polyethylene
36 x 19 cm
Collection of the artist
GPC-0011
Blueprint
50 x 70 cm
Collection of the artist
GPC-0012
Blueprint
50 x 70 cm
Collection of the artist
GPC-0013
Blueprint
Two parts 40.3 x 53.1 cm each, overall dimensions 40.3 x 108.2 cm
Private collection, Milan
GPC-0014
Folded paper mounted inside a folder with a cut-out
33.5 x 50 cm
Collection of the artist
GPC-0015
Folded and torn paper, metal tacks
33.5 x 25.5 cm
Collection of the artist
GPC-2082
Collage on blueprint
Two parts 42 x 55 cm each, overall dimensions 42 x 112 cm
Collection of the artist
GPC-0016
Sheet of drawing paper with autograph inscription, square of drawing paper
65 x 47 cm
Private collection, Turin
GPC-0017
Sheet of drawing paper with autograph inscription, envelope
55.7 x 44 cm
Private collection
GPC-0018
Sheet of drawing paper with autograph inscription, crumpled sheet of foolscap paper
Present whereabouts unknown
GPC-0019
Sheet of drawing paper with autograph inscription, sheet of foolscap paper
65 x 50 cm
Private collection, St. Gallen (Switzerland)

Total records found: 2605