Studio per “Mnemosine (Les charmes de la vie/9)”, 1988

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Archive number

GPC-1382

English title

Study for “Mnemosine (Les charmes de la vie/9)”

Technique

Pencil and collage on graph paper

Inscriptions by the artist

Titled, dedicated, signed, and dated on the recto: “Studio per “Mnemosine (Les charmes de la vie / 9” (bottom left), “a Marco Rivetti, Giulio Paolini 1988” (bottom right)

Collection

Private collection, Turin

Sources

Detail on the right: Jean-Antoine Watteau, Les Charmes de la Vie, 1717-18, oil on canvas, 69 x 90 cm, The Wallace Collection, London; reproduction from L’opera completa di Watteau. Classici dell’arte 21 (Milan: Rizzoli, 1968), plates XII-XIII).

Bibliography

•	G. Celant, Giulio Paolini. Tra Telaio e Paolini (Turin: Gruppo GFT, 1988), col. repr. in the folded plate at the back of the book (as “Mnemosine (Les charmes de la vie/9), 1988”).
•	Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Milan-Rome: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore - De Luca Edizioni d’Arte, 1988), col. repr. in the folded plate (erroneously titled and dated “Studio per ‘Mnemosine’, 1979-80”).
•	Nike Bätzner, Arte Povera. Zwischen Erinnerung und Ereignis: Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis (Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2000), p. 68, repr. pp. 68-69 (erroneously dated “1979-80”).

Entry by Maddalena Disch, 22/07/2026