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Dorazio, Piero
1927 Rome - 2005 Perugia.
«Diafano».
Oil on coarse canvas. Verso signed, dated 1980 and titled. Verso on the stretcher and on the canvas overlap each with the artist's stamp, there both numbered with the work number «1190», a further indistinct stamp as well as a printed label from the Galerie Dr. Luise Krohn, Badenweiler.
H 76, W 104 cm (support). Unframed.
As one of the leading artists of concrete art, Piero Dorazio was dedicated to the phenomena of light and colour in his works. Finding inspiration in Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism, Dorazio's œuvre always displayed the for him characteristic consistent geometry and structure. For his abstract visual language, Dorazio predominantly used primary colours, which he overlays, combines, strings together and repeats in a series of different patterns.
«[...] but in a different technique, in which the vertical brushstrokes along the coloured bands are dissolved in a rapid rhythmic sequence. It [the paint] evokes moments when the sunlight seems to linger and focus only on the eyes, sensations and feelings.» from: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna Roma (Ed.,), Dorazio, Milan 1983, p. 84.
We would like to thank Mr Stefano Risso, Archivio Piero Dorazio, Milan, for the kind remarks via E-Mail, 21.07.2022.
For a fee and after an assessment based on the original by the expert committee of the Archivio Piero Dorazio, the present work can be registered in the archive.
Provenance: purchased at Galerie Dr. Luise Krohn, Badenweiler, in 1983; since then private collection Müllheim in the Markgräflerland.
Literature: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna Roma (Ed.), Dorazio, Milan 1983, p. 84, ill. 70 (cf.).

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