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GPO-0022

Untitled

Primed canvas mounted on masonite panel

43 x 22.5 cm

Signed and dated on the verso, upper stretcher bar, centre: "Giulio Paolini 1962"

Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini, Turin

Gift of the artist, 25 October 2012, archive no. GPO-0022
From December 2005 to May 2011 on loan at Madre –
museo d’arte contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples

A rectangle of primed canvas is applied to a masonite panel leaving the border of the support visible on all four sides.

1976 Parma, Palazzo della Pilotta, Sala delle Scuderie, Giulio Paolini, 11 March - 21 April, not repr.
1984 Villeurbanne, Le Nouveau Musée, Giulio Paolini, 20 January - 18 March, vol.
Images/Index, repr. p. 13 (exhibition view Parma 1976).
1985-86 Montreal, Musée d’art contemporain, Giulio Paolini, 7 July - 8 September, touring to: Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, 29 November 1985 - 19 January 1986, same catalogue as for the solo exhibition in Villeurbanne 1984.
1986 Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Giulio Paolini, 15 February - 30 March, same catalogue as for the solo exhibition in Villeurbanne 1984.
1989 London, Royal Academy of Arts, Italian Art in the 20th Century. Painting and Sculpture 1980-1988, 14 January - 9 April, repr. p. 423.
1999 London, Lisson Gallery, Giulio Paolini. Stanze, 16 April - 22 May.
2005 Naples, MADRE Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Atto secondo. La Collezione, from 10 December, p. 83, col. repr. p. 82 (catalogue published in 2006).
• G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. p. 15 (exhibition view Parma 1976).
• Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), col. repr. p. 57.
• MADRE Museo d’arte contemporanea Donnaregina Napoli (Naples-Milan: Fondazione Donnaregina and Mondadori Electa, 2006), p. 83, col. repr. p. 82.
• M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 22 p. 63, col. repr.
• J. Meinhardt, Giulio Paolini. Senza titolo, 1961. In collezione 3 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2015), p. 56, col. repr. p. 45.
• Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), repr. p. 147 (exhibition view Parma 1976), col. repr. pp. 180-181 (exhibition view Montreal 1985).
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 07/10/2026