Alberto Burri Untitled signed and dated (on the retr...

Alberto Burri Untitled signed and dated (on back) acrylic, canvas and vinavil on board 4 x 5.7 cm Executed in 1958 Provenance: Private collection Bibliography: Bruno Corà, Catalogo Generale Pittura, 1958/1978, Vol. II, p.86, no. 832 Bruno Corà, Catalogo Generale Repertorio cronologico 1945/1994, Vol. IV, p.128, no. 832. Alberto Burri (Città di Castello, March 12, 1915 - Nice, Feb. 13, 1995) A medical graduate, in 1940 he was called to arms as a combat medic. In 1943 he was captured by the British and imprisoned by the Americans in Texas, and it was during this period that he decided to devote himself to the world of art and painting, making his first painting while in prison. In 1947 in Rome he exhibited at his first solo show in the La Margherita gallery presenting figurative works, while his second show "Bianchi e Catrami" in 1948 presented abstract works with strong references to the painting of Mirò, Klee and Jean Arp. In the following years Burri's experimentation with new and avant-garde materials began, where matter became the real protagonist of the painting. From 1950 the creation of the Sacchi takes on great prominence, which predominate his solo exhibitions now held in various European and American cities. In the 1950s he will also elaborate Combustions, Woods and Irons, and in the 1960s he will work with transparent plastics shaped with the heat of fire. A fundamental artist of the informal material movement, he asserted that "materials do not matter," meaning that it is not the materials per se that have meaning so much as the use made of them. € Estimate 90,000 - 110,000