Live Auction 1175The Italian Sale
Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
Lot 102 Property of a Roman Collector

Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)

Da un soggetto

Closed18 October 2013

Price Realised

GBP 104,500

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Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
Da un soggetto
signed 'Rotella' (lower centre); signed and dated 'Rotella/1959' (on the reverse)
décollage on canvas
38¼ x 30¾in. (97 x 78cm.)
Executed in 1959

Galleria La Salita, Rome.

Specialist note

'I tear the posters, first from the walls, then from the support: how much style, how much imagination and how many interests accumulate, clash and alternate between the first and last tear. It is not a question from abstract colours being contrasted, but of colours with their own energy, their own spirit, their own vitality, so to speak'. M. Rotella, quoted in E. Prampolini, Art Club, year 1, no. 1, October 1945.