Mimmo Rotella - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, October 11, 2024 | Phillips
  • Condition Report

  • Description

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  • Provenance

    Barone Giorgio Franchetti Collection, Rome
    Galleria JZ Art Trading, Milan
    Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2008)
    Phillips, London, 11 April 2019, lot 122
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Paris, Galerie J, Rotella Vatican IV, April 1965, n.p. (illustrated)
    Ravenna, Logetta Lombardesca, Arte Santa, 11 May–31 August 1986, p. 119 (illustrated, p. 52)
    Rome, Palazzo delle Espozioni, Tutte le strade portano a Roma?, 11 March–26 April 1993, p. 163 (illustrated)
    Verona, Palazzo Forti, Collezione Giorgio Franchetti, 12 June-22 August 1999, no. 18, p. 76 (illustrated, p. 50)
    London, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Mimmo Rotella Early Works 1954-1967, 1 March-21 April 2007, no. 20, p. 68 (illustrated, pp. 56-57)

  • Literature

    Umanesimo, Disumanesimo nell'arte europea 1890/1980, exh. cat., Palagio di Parte Guelfa, Florence, 1980, p. 103 (illustrated)
    MIMMO Rotella antologica, exh. cat., Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pisa, 2001, p. 103 (illustrated)
    Germano Celant, Mimmo Rotella, Milan, 2007, no. 243, p. 547 (illustrated, p. 246)
    Alice Berton and Raffaella Perna, Mimmo Rotella et la Galerie J, Milan, 2012, p. 43
    Germano Celant, Mimmo Rotella: Catalogo ragionato. Volume secondo 1962-1973, Tomo III, Milan, 2020, no. 1963 005, p. 1097 (illustrated)

212

La Benedizione

signed and dated 'Rotella/63' lower right; titled and dated '"la benedizione" 1963' on the reverse
cardboard and paper laid down on canvas
64.8 x 126 cm (25 1/2 x 49 5/8 in.)
Executed in 1963.

Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 

Place Advance Bid
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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 11 October 2024