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Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
Lot 351 WORKS ON PAPER FROM THE CARTASI COLLECTION

Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)

A mezza luna (At Half-Moon)

Closed7 October 2017

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GBP 112,500

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Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)
A mezza luna (At Half-Moon)
signed 'Rotella' (lower right); signed and titled 'Rotella "a mezza luna"' (on the reverse)
décollage on canvas
39 5/8 x 23 7/8in. (100.5 x 60.5cm.)
Executed in 1960

Private Collection.
Anon. sale, Finarte Rome, 3 June 1993, lot 153.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘I invented the décollages 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.’ MIMMO ROTELLA