Piero Dorazio

Piero Dorazio 1927 - 2005 Vanitosa Pastorale. 1958. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right. 146 x 114 cm (57.4 x 44.8 in). TURNING POINT In the late 1950s, Dorazio developed his vibrant color structures through dense, sensually interwoven lines. PROTAGONISTS Color, light, and rhythmic structure define the painting. BIENNALE Exhibited in the 1960 Venice Biennale; shown at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome the year it was created. PRIVATE COLLECTION Part of a Berlin collection for over 40 years. Accompanied by a photo certificate issued by the Archivio Piero Dorazio, Milan. The work is documented in the Archivio Piero Dorazio, Milan. PROVENANCE: Private collection, Berlin (1985, Galerie Springer). EXHIBITION: “Pittori tedeschi e italiani contemporanei,” Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, April/May 1958 (with remnants of a label on the stretcher). XXX. Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, June 18–October 16, 1960, cat. no. 69 (with a label on the stretcher). Galerie Müller, Stuttgart, Jan. 19–Feb. 28, 1962, cat. no. 111 (with two labels on the stretcher). Galerie Springer, Berlin (with a label on the stretcher). Dorazio, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich, November 20, 1981–January 10, 1982; Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, June 13, 1981–August 28, 1981 (with a label of the Wilhelm Hack Museum on the stretcher). Piero Dorazio, Quadrat Bottrop, Moderne Galerie, Bottrop, June 13–August 22, 1982 (no catalog; with a label on the stretcher bearing the handwritten designation “A.K.”). LITERATURE: Marisa Volpi Orlandini, Jacques Lassaigne u. Giorgio Crisafi, Dorazio, Milan 1977 / Stuttgart 1978, CR no. 298 (illustrated in black and white). Piero Dorazio, in: Galerie im Erker, Piero Dorazio, St. Gallen 1966, no page Called up: December 4, 2026 - ca. 18.56 h +/- 20 min.

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