Modern and Contemporary Art

MARINO MARINI

(Pistoia 1901 - Viareggio 1980)

Nudo seduto

ink and tempera on paper, cm 38,3x29
signed and dated lower right Marino
executed in 1944
 
Registered work at the Marino Marini Foundation.

FRANCO GENTILINI

(Faenza 1909 - Roma 1981)

Ragazza con ventaglio N.1

oil and sand on canvas, cm 60x70

signed on the left

on the reverse three labels, and one stamp of Christie's

executed in 1958

In 1958, he took part in the IX Premio del Fiorino in Florence and in the 'Maggio di Bari', where he won the Golden Ramoscello prize. He has a room at the XXIX Venice Biennale, where he won the "Richard-Ginori Ceramic Society" Prize in Milan. Staff at the Galleria del Naviglio. Illustrates with six drawings The Argentine ant by Italo Calvino, published by the Sodalizio del Libro, Venice. For the Editions of Cavallino, Venice, the monograph is published with a text by Guido Ballo.                                      

MARIO SIRONI

(Sassari 1885 - Milano 1961)

Paesaggio arcaico

mixed media on paper,  cm40x50

on the back: label and stamp on the frame of the Openart Gallery, Prato

on the back: label and stamp of the Town Hall of Livorno Show 50 Artists in the last 30 years

signed lower right

performed in the 50s

Exhibitions

Shows 50 artists of the last 30 years, 11 - 30 January 1958, Salone della Casa della Cultura in Livorno

Bibliography

Shows 50 artists of the last 30 years, provenance shown in the exhibition, Collector

Rag. Ruggero Ristori, Florence, published in the catalog with the No. 9, exhibition

organized in the Salone della Casa della Cultura in Livrone from 11 January 1958 to 30 January 1958

DIETRICH KLINGE

(Germania 1954)

Roes II

bronze, cm h 158x80x50
performed in the 2000s
 
Provenance
Private collection

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

(New York, USA 1960 - New York, USA 1988)

Untitled 

acrylic, oil and organic pigments on postcard, 17.78x12.7 cm
on the back signed and dated J.M.B 82
executed in 1982
 
The work is accompanied by an authentic released in 2000 by the Authentication Committee
of the Summer of Jean-Michel Basquiat
The work is registered with the Authentication Committee of the Estate of Jean-Michel
Basquiat, with the number n. 10877
 
provenance
Private collection, Usa
Private collection, Arezzo
 
In 1982, in the United States, his first personal exhibition took place in the
gallery owner Annina Noesei in New York, in the same month the works of Basquiat are included
in the collective Trasnavanguardia: Italy / America set up by Achille Bonito Oliva in the
Civic Gallery of Modena. The exhibition offers a new generation of artists born from
different cultures in which the name of Basquiat appears alongside the neo-expressionists
Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, David Deutsch, David Salle and Julian
Schnabel. In June he is invited to participate in Documenta 7, in Kassel, a younger artist
among the 176 present, his works not only appear in the category of new levers and therefore
with Francesco Clemente, Keith Haring, but they are flanked by the works of artists now
such as Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Gerard Richter, Cy Twombly and Andy
Warhol.
His first "official" works, starting with those made between 1979 and 1980, favored the
writing or a quick, brute image, traced with the urgency of the scream, of the
testimony, of the private ostentation of every aesthetic pleasure. The concept
it works indifferently on paper and on canvas: in the first case it seems to acquire sometimes
a more immediate and perhaps logical impact, this being the most suitable support for
welcome a similar gestural contribution. The trace of a caricatured character emerges
on his head, or on the back of his works, a three-pointed crown is depicted.
On the crown was expressed, the friend Francesco Clemente: "the crown of Jean-Michel has
trepunte, because it is triple its royal lineage: poet, musician and great
boxing champion. "(Luciano Caprile, Jean-Michel Basquiat The word and the image,
exhibition catalog Museum of Modern Art City of Lugano, Jean-Michel Basquiat).

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

(New York, USA 1960 - New York, USA 1988)

Untitled (Everlast)

acrylic, oil and organic pigments on postcard, 17.78x12.7 cm
executed in 1982
 
The work is accompanied by an authentic released in 2000 by the Authentication Committee
of the Summer of Jean-Michel Basquiat
The work is registered with the Authentication Committee of the Estate of Jean-Michel
Basquiat, with the number n. 10874
 
provenance
Private collection, Usa
Private collection, Arezzo
 
Before even starting to paint together in the mid-eighties, Andy Warhol e
Jean-Michel Basquiat shared a similar interest in certain subjects and themes.
They were both fascinated by the combination of texts and writings or printed and images, and
both attracted subjects of popular culture. In his fundamental works of the first
sixties Warhol, he had repeatedly used newspaper titles, advertisements, brands of
factory and prices of products, comics characters and celebrities as subjects of his
paintings and his drawings. Basquiat's work, created twenty years later, was based on
similar elements, but approached from a different perspective. It was a fortuitous and prophetic event
when the two artists were sent to work together. In 1984 Bruno Bischofberger
he asked Warhol, Basquait and Francesco Clemente to create collaborative paintings.
Warhol appreciated Basquiat's company and creativity, and vice versa, and between the two
he established a strong friendship, not only on a professional but also on a personal basis. From this
moment they continued to collaborate, for many years making important canvases, and how
bears witness to this work by Basquiat, linked to boxing and the forerunner of the exhibition
they worked together at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in the following years. It was Basquait a
ask the photographer Halsband if he had photographed a traditional boxing style poster
that he and Warhol wanted for a new show. The result, literally, is the
history. 
In 1982, in the United States, his first personal exhibition took place in the
gallery owner Annina Noesei in New York, in the same month the works of Basquiat are included
in the collective Trasnavanguardia: Italy / America set up by Achille Bonito Oliva in the
Civic Gallery of Modena. The exhibition offers a new generation of artists born from
different cultures in which the name of Basquiat appears alongside the neo-expressionists
Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, David Deutsch, David Salle and Julian
Schnabel. In June he is invited to participate in Documenta 7, in Kassel, a younger artist
among the 176 present, his works not only appear in the category of new levers and therefore
with Francesco Clemente, Keith Haring, but they are flanked by the works of artists now
such as Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Gerard Richter, Cy Twombly and Andy
Warhol.
His first "official" works, starting with those made between 1979 and 1980, favored the
writing or a quick, brute image, traced with the urgency of the scream, of the
testimony, of the private ostentation of every aesthetic pleasure. The concept
it works indifferently on paper and on canvas: in the first case it seems to acquire sometimes
a more immediate and perhaps logical impact, this being the most suitable support for
welcome a similar gestural contribution. The trace of a caricatured character emerges
on his head, or on the back of his works, a three-pointed crown is depicted.
On the crown was expressed, the friend Francesco Clemente: "the crown of Jean-Michel has
trepunte, because it is triple its royal lineage: poet, musician and great
boxing champion. "(Luciano Caprile, Jean-Michel Basquiat The word and the image,
exhibition catalog Museum of Modern Art City of Lugano, Jean-Michel Basquiat).

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

(New York, USA 1960 - New York, USA 1988)

Untitled

acrylic, oil and organic pigments on postcard, 17.78x12.7 cm
on the back signed and dated J.M.B 81
executed in 1981
 
The work is accompanied by an authentic released in 2000 by the Authentication Committee
of the Summer of Jean-Michel Basquiat
The work is registered with the Authentication Committee of the Estate of Jean-Michel
Basquiat, with the number n. 10871
 
provenance
Private collection, Usa
Private collection, Arezzo
 
In February 1981, Jean-Michel Basquiat took part in the New York / New exhibition
Wave designed by Diego Cortez at the Long Island Institute for Art and Urban Resources.
The exhibition includes more than twenty artists including Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethrope, Kenny
Scharf and Andy Warhol, in addition to the graffiti artists Ali, Crash, Dondi, Fab 5 Freddy,
Haze, Lady Pink, Seen and Zephyr, Basquiat represented twenty works among drawings
and paintings that cover an entire wall. His work particularly attracts the attention of the
art dealers Emilio Mazzoli, Annina Nosi, and Bruno Bischofberger. In autumn Annina
Nosei invites him to participate in the collective Public Address, set up in his gallery
New York, it will become the reference gallerist putting it at the disposal of the
basement of the gallery, which will become the study of Basquiat. This exhibition is the
launch pad that officially introduces Basquait into the art world, by stating
Basquiat as worthy heir to CY Twombly and Jean Dubuffet, having absorbed and
combined in his works the elegance of Twombly and the primitivism of Dubuffet.

REMO BIANCO

(Milano 1922 - Milano 1988)

Busto femminile

marmo bianco, cm 48x32x20

L'opera è in corso di registrazione presso la Fondazione Remo Bianco