Live Auction 6248The Italian Sale
Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
Lot 111

Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)

La vendita continua (The Sale Continues)

Closed11 October 2012

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GBP 58,850

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Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
La vendita continua (The Sale Continues)
signed, titled and dated '"LA VENDITA CONTINUA" 1961, Dicembre Rotella' (on the reverse)
31½ x 49¼in. (80 x 125cm.)
décollage on canvas
Executed in 1961

Galleria Editalia, Rome.
Galleria La Salita, Rome.
Acquired from the above and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

I invented the dcollages in Rome, in 1953, but I only showed them to the public for the first time in February 1954. It was the art critic and philologue Emilio Villa, who was the first to discover the lacerated posters. He came to my house...one night saw my "papers" and was stunned. He told me that I was doing very important things, and that I had invented a new artistic language (M. Rotella, quoted in Mimmo Rotella Retrospective, exh. cat., Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, 1999-2000, p. 135).