Alberto Burri

(Italian, 1915–1995)

Alberto Burri was an Italian artist and one of the most prominent abstract painters of the 20th century. Associated with the Arte Povera movement, he is perhaps best known for his sacchi (“sacks”) series, wherein he stitched, patched, and painted on rough burlap bags. “The words don’t mean anything to me; they talk around the picture. What I have to express appears in the picture,” he once remarked. “With the other elements it is involved in a whole chain of pulls and tensions. But this is only the architectonic structure. For the rest I have nothing to add.” Born on March 12, 1915 in Citta di Castello, Italy, he studied medicine before serving in Mussolini’s army during World War II as a doctor. Captured in Tunisia, Burri was interned at Camp Howze in Texas as a prisoner of war, where he began painting on readily available discarded burlap. After his release in 1946, he moved to Rome where his art practice turned towards abstraction. His interest in non-traditional materials continued with experiments using wood, tar, plastic, zinc oxide, pumice, PVC adhesives, and fabric. In 1960, his solo show at the Venice Biennale garnered him the Critics Prize, and in 1963, he had his first US retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. He died on February 15, 1995 in Nice, France, and was the subject of a major posthumous museum retrospective in 2015 when the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York presented “Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting.” Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others.

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Bianco e nero, 1971

Alberto Burri

Bianco e nero, 1971

Sale Date: November 13, 2011

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Combustione plastica L. A., 1967

Alberto Burri

Combustione plastica L. A., 1967

Sale Date: November 23, 2011

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Bianchi e Neri II, 1969

Alberto Burri

Bianchi e Neri II, 1969

Sale Date: November 23, 2011

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Cretto

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: November 19, 2011

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Combustione 4, 1965

Alberto Burri

Combustione 4, 1965

Sale Date: November 16, 2011

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Senza titolo

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: November 16, 2011

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Cretto nero N8

Alberto Burri

Cretto nero N8

Sale Date: November 10, 2011

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Trittico (3 works), 1973

Alberto Burri

Trittico (3 works), 1973

Sale Date: October 29, 2011

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Bianchi e neri II (portfolio of 6 w/colophon), 1969

Alberto Burri

Bianchi e neri II (portfolio of 6 w/colophon), 1969

Sale Date: October 29, 2011

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Sans titre, 1952

Alberto Burri

Sans titre, 1952

Sale Date: October 24, 2011

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Cellotex, 1984

Alberto Burri

Cellotex, 1984

Sale Date: October 14, 2011

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Ferro (Iron), 1958

Alberto Burri

Ferro (Iron), 1958

Sale Date: October 14, 2011

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Rosso plastica L.A., 1963

Alberto Burri

Rosso plastica L.A., 1963

Sale Date: October 13, 2011

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Combustione legno, 1957

Alberto Burri

Combustione legno, 1957

Sale Date: October 13, 2011

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Nero e grigio

Alberto Burri

Nero e grigio

Sale Date: September 17, 2011

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Trittico B: Tavola 1, 2 and 3 (set of 3), 1973

Alberto Burri

Trittico B: Tavola 1, 2 and 3 (set of 3), 1973

Sale Date: September 27, 2011

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Trittico A: Tavola 1, 2 and 3 (set of 3), 1973

Alberto Burri

Trittico A: Tavola 1, 2 and 3 (set of 3), 1973

Sale Date: September 27, 2011

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Nero e oro, 1993

Alberto Burri

Nero e oro, 1993

Sale Date: September 17, 2011

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Untitled

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: June 18, 2011

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Combustione, 1963

Alberto Burri

Combustione, 1963

Sale Date: June 29, 2011

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Bianchi e neri II - E, 1969

Alberto Burri

Bianchi e neri II - E, 1969

Sale Date: June 13, 2011

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Acquaforte F

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: June 16, 2011

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Acquaforte G

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: June 16, 2011

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Copertina, 1959–1981

Alberto Burri

Copertina, 1959–1981

Sale Date: June 16, 2011

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