Lot #891: MARIO SCHIFANO - Composizione - Crayon and pencil drawing

 

Artist: Mario Schifano (Italian, 1934-1988).
Title: "Composizione".
Medium: Crayon and pencil drawing.
Date: Composed c1972.
Dimensions: Overall size: 13 7/8 x 19 5/16 in. (352 x 491 mm). Image size: 11 1/8 x 14 1/4 in. (283 x 362 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed lower right. White wove paper. Condition: Affixed by the artist to a tan laid paper sheet with the expected associated rippling; a few glue stains, far right of image; else very good. Comment(s): Schifano was an Italian painter and collagist of the Postmodern tradition. He also achieved some renown as a film-maker and rock musician. He is considered to be one of most significant and pre-eminent artists of Italian postmodernism, alongside contemporaries such as Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia and Giulio Paolini. His work was exhibited in the famous 1962 "New Realists" show at the Sidney Janis Gallery with other young Pop Art and Nouveau réalisme luminaries, including Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. He became part of the core group of artists comprising the "Scuola romana" alongside Franco Angeli and Tano Festa. Image copyright © The Estate of Mario Schifano. [26790-3-400]