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Alberto Burri, Nero Catrame, 1950

Alberto Burri

Nero Catrame, 1950
tar, oil, pumice stone, vinavil on canvas
80 x 110 cm
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Provenance

- Principe Alessandro Ruspoli, Rome,
- Private Collection, Italy, acquired in the early 60s
thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibitions

- Neri e Muffe, Galleria dell’Obelisco, Rome, from 3 January 1952

- Peintures Italiennes d’aujourd’hui, Beirut,10 - 20 December 1963, Damasco, January 1964; Téhéran from 22 February 1964; Ankara from 26 March 1964; Tunisi 19 - 31 May 1964
- Alberto Burri, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, 14 January - 19 April, 1976
- Europa/America - L'astrazione determinata, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, May - September 1976
- Alberto Burri, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, February - April 1977
- Alberto Burri, Palacio de Velázquez Parque del Retiro, Madrid, April - May 1977
-Alberto Burri. A Retrospective View 1948-77, The Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery University of California, Los Angeles, 25 September - 4 December 1977, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum (San Antonio, Texas) 8 January - 19 February 1978; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), 12 May - 4 July 1978
- Arte Astratta in Italia 1909-1959, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, 2 April - 11
May 1980
- Burri Fontana 1949-1968, Museo Pecci, Prato, 13 April - 30 June 1996
- Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 9 October 2015 - 6 January 2016
- Burri. Painting, an irreducible presence, an exhibition organised by the Giorgio Cini Foundation of Venice and
Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri Foundation, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, 10 May - 28 July 2019

Literature

⁃ Burri, Cesare Brandi (curated by), ed. Editalia (collana "Maestri del XX secolo"), Rome, 1963

⁃ Alberto Burri, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, De Luca editore, Rome, 1976

⁃ Europa/America - L'astrazione determinata, Flavio Caroli (curated by), Galleria d’Arte Moderna published by Comune di Bologna, 1976

⁃ Alberto Burri, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian edition, Lisbon, 1977

⁃ Burri a Lisbona, in “Colóquio Artes”, 2° serie, a. 19, n. 32, April 1977, Lisbona, p. 63

- Alberto Burri. A Retrospective View 1948-77, ed. The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles, 1977, p. 14
- Gli elementi pittorici di un grande creatore, in "Prospettive nel mondo", a. III, nn. 29/30, November- December, Florence, 1978 - Alberto Burri, Gerald Nordland (curated by), in "Studio Marconi", n. 6/7, 16 November, Milano, 1978 (magazine)

⁃ Arte Astratta Italiana 1909-1959, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma, De Luca Editore, Roma, 1980

⁃ Alberto Burri, Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri, n.1826, 1990, pp. 424, 425 ill. b/n

⁃ Alberto Burri, la peinture mise en pièces, in «Beaux Arts», Vedrenne-Careri Elisabeth (curated by), n. 97,  January 1992, Paris, p. 42

- Gli anni originali, Plinio De Martiis (curated by), Editori Del Grifo, Montepulciano, Siena, 1995, p. 8
- Una visita guidata alla Collezione Burri, Chiara Sarteanesi, in Bonomi Giorgio (curated by), “La Collezione Burri. Arte contemporanea e scuola” (Conference proceedings IRRSAE of Umbria, Città di Castello, 1993), Gesp Editrice, Città di Castello, 1995
- Omaggio ad Alberto Burri, Carlo Terrosi (curated by), in "Quaderni degli "Amici dell'Umbria in Emilia Romagna", n. 6, 17 December, Bologna, 1995
- Burri Fontana 1949-1968, Bruno Corá (curated by), Skira Editore, Milano, 1996, p. 99
- Burri e l’informale, ed. Il Sole-24 Ore, Milano under licence of E-ducation, Firenze, monografia, n. 23, pp. 40-4, 2008
- Alberto Burri: la vita, il percorso artistico e critico, Aldo Iori (curated by), in “Alberto Burri Opera al Nero Cellotex 1972-1992”, Verona, 2012-13, ed. Galleria dello Scudo, Verona - Skira, Milano, 2012

⁃ Burri. Catalogo generale, volume 1, Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri, Cittá di Castello, 2015, p. 72

⁃ Alberto Burri. The Trauma of Painting, Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York, 2016, illustrated in colour, pp. 119, 122

⁃ Burri. Painting, an irreducible presence, Forma edizioni, Firenze, 2019, p. 51

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