Teatro dell’Opera, Roma (Mefistofele), 2023
GPC-2304
Teatro dell’Opera, Rome (Mephistopheles)
White pencil and collage on black paper
70 x 50 cm
Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, centre: “Teatro dell’Opera / Roma / “Mefistofele” / Giulio Paolini / 2023”
Collection of the artist
• Figure at the top: William Blake, “Europe” Plate i: Frontispiece, “The Ancient of Days”, c. 1827, watercolour on paper, 23.2 x 17 cm, The Whitworth, The University of Manchester, Manchester.
• Figure at the bottom: Johann Heinrich Füssli, Der Nachtmahr, 1781, oil on canvas, 102 x 127 cm, Institute of Art, Detroit.
• Title from the opera by Arrigo Boito, Mefistofele, 1868.
| • | Stagione 2023-24 (Rome: Teatro dell’Opera, 2023), col. repr. pp. 16-17 (detail), 134 (titled “Mefistofele”). |
| • | Calibano. L’Opera e il mondo 2 (Florence), November, 2023, col. repr. on cover. |