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Et quid amabo nisi quod ænigma est?, 2016

GPC-1501

Pencil and collage on black paper

50 x 70 cm

Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, centre: “ “Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est?” / Giulio Paolini / 2016”

Private collection

Quotation from Giorgio de Chirico, Portrait de l’artiste par lui-même, 1910-11, oil on canvas, 72.5 x 55 cm, Private collection.

2016-17 New York, Center for Italian Modern Art, Giorgio de Chirico – Giulio Paolini / Giulio Paolini – Giorgio de Chirico, 14 October 2016 - 24 June 2017, col. repr. pp. 42 (exhibition view), 47.
2021-22 Turin, Tucci Russo Chambres d’Art, Giulio Paolini. Qui (da lontano), 28 October 2021 - 29 January 2022 (exhibited from 18 November 2021).
Giulio Paolini / Giorgio de Chirico, edited by A. Cortellessa (Turin: Nino Aragno editore, 2019), col. repr. p. 86.
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 07/08/2026