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Studio per “Mnemosine (Les charmes de la vie/8)”, 1981-90

GPC-0793

Study for “Mnemosine (Les charmes de la vie/8)”

Pencil and collage on paper

50 x 70 cm

Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, centre: “Studio per / “Mnemosine (Les charmes / de la vie/8)” / Giulio Paolini / 1981-90”

Private collection

Background image: Jean-Antoine Watteau, Les Charmes de la Vie, 1717-18, oil on canvas, 69 x 90 cm, The Wallace Collection, London.

Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, exhibition catalogue, Lugano, Spazio -1, 2015, repr. p. 17 (incompletely titled “Mnemosine (Les Charmes de la Vie”).
Entry by Ilaria Bernardi and Maddalena Disch, 22/07/2026