Copia dal vero, 1975
GPO-0316
Copy from Life
Pencil and wooden slat on primed canvas, pencil on reversed canvas
Four parts 60 x 40 cm each, overall dimensions 60 x 165 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso of the fourth canvas, lower right: “Giulio Paolini / Copia dal vero 1975”
Private collection, Lausanne
Four rectangular canvases placed at short intervals from each other are viewed alternatively from the recto and the verso, and depict the linear and reduced profile of the same four elements. On the third canvas the drawing of the fourth element is integrated with a wooden bar, imitating one side of the stretcher of the fourth canvas.
The same theme was formulated in five other variants made during the same year (GPO-0278, GPO-0303, GPO-0306, GPO-0307, GPO-0321).
| 1976 | Milan, Studio Marconi, Giulio Paolini, from 5 February. |
| 1986 | Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Giulio Paolini, 15 February - 30 March, not repr. (same catalogue as for the solo exhibition in Villeurbanne 1984). |
| 1993 | Pully (Lausanne), FAE Musée d’art contemporain, A la découverte... de collections romandes I, 19 February - 27 June, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 45, not repr. |
| • | L. Van den Abeele, Laurent Busine, in Artefactum 7, no. 35 (Antwerp), September-October, 1990, repr. p. 45 (exhibition view Charleroi 1986). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 316 p. 325, col. repr. |
