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Diapason, 1979-80
GPO-0428
Tuning Fork
Pencil on primed canvas and on reversed canvas, brass decoration
107.5 x 100 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, upper stretcher bar, right: “Diapason / Giulio Paolini 1979-80”
Rosa and Gilberto Sandretto Collection, Milan
On a square canvas, a drawing of a series of squares in an oblique position arranged at random are echoed by two small canvases of which one viewed from the recto and the other from the verso. As they gradually grow smaller, they repeat the game of squares. The “voices” of this composition are "harmonized" by a small brass ornament, placed on the upper end of the canvas, portraying a putto with a swan.
The same theme was developed in two other variants in the same year (GPO-0427, GPO-0429).
| 1990 | Kiel, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Allegorie, from 8 May, col. repr. n. pag. (with exhibition view). |
| 2014 | New York, Dominique Lévy Gallery, “Hypothesis for an Exhibition”, 8 July - 16 August, col. repr. pp. 127, 128 (detail). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 428 p. 439, col. repr. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 11/05/2026
