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Arianna abbandonata, 2015
GPC-1441
Ariadne Abandoned
Collage on black paper
33 x 50 cm
Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, centre: “ “Arianna abbandonata” / Giulio Paolini / 2015”
Collection of the artist
• Figure: Sleeping Ariadne, 1st-2nd century AD Roman copy of a Hellenistic original, marble, 161 cm, Musei Vaticani, Rome; reproduction from Francis Haskell, Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), p. 185, fig. 96 (“Cleopatra”).
• Background image from Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Sammlung architectonischer Entwürfe (Berlin: Verlag von Ernst & Korn, 1858), plate 37 (“Perspective des Neuen Museums am Lustgarten zu Erbauen”).
| 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), 57. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 04/08/2026
