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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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Jun 5, 2019 | Dorotheum | Vienna | Contemporary Art I | 209 | $****** - ****** | Carta Verde | |||
Mar 21, 2015 | Meeting Art | Vercelli | Opere dell'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea | 440 | $****** - ****** | Carta verde | |||
May 31, 2014 | Farsettiarte | Prato | Arte Moderna | 572 | $****** - ****** | Carta verde |
paintings
60 x 70 cm (23.62 x 27.56 in)
oil and mixed media (newspaper collage) on canvas
signed and dated 62; dated and titled on the reverse
Private Collection, Vicenza Finarte, Milan, 6 April 1993, lot 138
Private Collection, Italy
Farsetti Arte, 31 March 2014, lot 572
European Private Collection
New York, Afro, Catherine Viviano Gallery, 26 February-23 March 1963 (label on the reverse)
Milan, Afro, Galleria Bergamini-Galleria Tega, October-December 1994, exh. cat. no. 9 with ill.
AA. VV., Catalogo generale ragionato dai documenti dell’Archivio Afro, Dataars, Rome 1997, p. 236, no. 515 with ill.
signed and dated 62; dated and titled on the reverse, oil and mixed media (newspaper collage) on canvas, 60 x 70 cm, framed
This work is registered in the Archivio Afro, Rome and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity
Provenance:
Private Collection, Vicenza Finarte, Milan, 6 April 1993, lot 138
Private Collection, Italy
Farsetti Arte, 31 March 2014, lot 572
European Private Collection
Exhibited:
New York, Afro, Catherine Viviano Gallery, 26 February-23 March 1963 (label on the reverse)
Milan, Afro, Galleria Bergamini Galleria Tega, October-December 1994, exh. cat. no. 9 with ill.
Literature:
AA. VV., Catalogo generale ragionato dai documenti dell'Archivio Afro, Dataars, Rome 1997, p. 236, no. 515 with ill.
His vision requires the mediation of time, which allows him to transition from prose to poetry. Perhaps this is why Afro's work is not made up of sudden jumps, dazzlingly rapid intuitions or boastful possessiveness. [...]
His faith in the potential of the language of abstraction is absolute.
He takes the risk that others do not understand his artistic language with the resignation of someone who knows he is powerless in the face of destiny. This language is essential to him because it is the only thing that can reveal the secrets of his soul.
L. Venturi, Afro, Pittori italiani d'oggi, De Luca Editore, Roma 1958
