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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.
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 14/08/2026