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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 4, 2019 | Christie's | London | Thinking Italian | 117 | $****** - ****** | Sacco |
paintings
99.8 x 86 cm (39.29 x 33.86 in)
burlap, fabric, oil, gold and Vinavil on canvas
signed and dated 'BURRI 53' (lower right)
H. Rubinstein Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1953).
Galleria dell'Oca, Rome.
Private Collection, Japan, acquired around 1980.
Rome, Galleria dell’Obelisco, Twenty imaginary view of the American Scene by twenty young Italian Artists, 1953 (illustrated in colour and titled Jazz, unpaged). This exhibition later travelled to Capri, Casa Cerio and New York, Helena Rubinstein Collection.
Saint Louis, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Contemporary Italian Art: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, 1955, no. 16 (illustrated, titled Jazz and dated 1954, p. 9). This exhibition later travelled to Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Rome, Galleria Editalia, Qui arte contemporanea dieci anni, 1976–1977 (illustrated, unpaged).
L'America "vista" dai pittori che mai hanno varcato l'atlantico, in La Stampa, no. 143, 17 June 1953 (titled Jazz, p. 5).
America immaginaria, in Giovedì, no. 26, 25 June 1953.
Alla sala Cerio a Capri la mostra dei venti pittori scelti da Helena Rubinstein, in Il Mattino, 2 July 1953.
La Collezione Rubinstein a Capri, in Il Mattino, 9 July 1953.
America immaginaria, in Domus, no. 286, September 1953, (ilustrited and titled Jazz, p.42).
Imaginary View of America by Italian Painters, in Vogue, vol. 122, no. 7, 15 October 1953 (illustrated in colour and titled Jazz, p. 69).
Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini (ed.), Burri. Contributi al catalogo sistematico, Città di Castello 1990, no. 250 (illustrated in colour, p. 67).
M. G. Tolomeo, “Gli esordi di Burri”, in Burri Opere 1944–1995, Rome 1996, pp. 22, 260.
M. de Sabbata, Burri e l’Informale, Milan 2008, p. 43 (titled Jazz).
A. Iori, Alberto Burri Opera al nero, Milan 2012 (illustrated, pp. 150-151).
Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini, (ed.), Burri. Contributi al Catalogo Sistematico, Città di Castello 2015, vol. I, p. 296, no. 210 (illustrated in colour, p. 110); vol. VI, no. i.5340 (illustrated in colour, p. 71).
Alberto Burri The Trauma of Painting, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2015-2016, p. 97 (titled Jazz).
AA. VV., Irene Brin, Gaspero del Corso e la Galleria L'Obelisco, Rome 2018, p. 199 (titled Jazz).
signed and dated 'BURRI 53' (lower right)
burlap, fabric, oil, gold and Vinavil on canvas
39¼ x 33 7/8in. (99.8 x 86cm.)
Executed in 1953
