Live Auction 6248The Italian Sale
Piero Dorazio (1927-2005)
Lot 85 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE ITALIAN COLLECTION

Piero Dorazio (1927-2005)

Untitled

Closed11 October 2012

Price Realised

GBP 79,250

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Piero Dorazio (1927-2005)
Untitled
signed 'PIERO DORAZIO' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 31 7/8in. (100 x 81cm.)
Painted circa 1960

Private Collection (acquired in 1962).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's Milan, 23 November 1999, lot 225.
Acquired at the above sale by the previous owner and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

'The surface of a canvas is a surface of two dimensions, and from that surface we make an optical phenomenon, we create an image that produces in the observer a sensation, an emotion, from all of which arises successively a problem, a reasoning, a thought, an idea, let us say in fact a mode of thought and of the spirit; if we do that, then we are in presence of art.' Piero Dorazio
(P. Dorazio and G. Turcato, "Conversazione sull' arte oggi e su cose interessanti in occasione della trentatreesima Biennale di Venezia", in Metro, Milan, no. 11, June 1966, p. 45.)