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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Alberto Burri Artworks

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Megarè, 1953

Alberto Burri

Megarè, 1953

Sale Date: October 16, 2009

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Bianco e nero

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Bianco e nero

Sale Date: June 25, 2009

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Lettere - A

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: June 25, 2009

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Bianchi e Neri II, 1967–1968

Alberto Burri

Bianchi e Neri II, 1967–1968

Sale Date: July 14, 2009

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Trittico B (various sizes; triptych), 1973–1976

Alberto Burri

Trittico B (various sizes; triptych), 1973–1976

Sale Date: May 31, 2009

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Senza titolo

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: May 20, 2009

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Serie di sei serigrafie (series of 6), 1973–1976

Alberto Burri

Serie di sei serigrafie (series of 6), 1973–1976

Sale Date: May 13, 2009

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Capitol rice flour, 1985

Alberto Burri

Capitol rice flour, 1985

Sale Date: February 13, 2009

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Combustione plastica, 1956

Alberto Burri

Combustione plastica, 1956

Sale Date: February 11, 2009

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Presenza grafica

Alberto Burri

Presenza grafica

Sale Date: December 12, 2008

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Serigrafia G

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: December 12, 2008

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Combustione, 1964

Alberto Burri

Combustione, 1964

Sale Date: November 26, 2008

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Combustione, 1968

Alberto Burri

Combustione, 1968

Sale Date: November 20, 2008

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Tempera, 1980

Alberto Burri

Tempera, 1980

Sale Date: November 25, 2008

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Cellotex, 1982

Alberto Burri

Cellotex, 1982

Sale Date: November 24, 2008

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No. 5 Combustione T, 1955

Alberto Burri

No. 5 Combustione T, 1955

Sale Date: November 24, 2008

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Bianco, 1952

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: November 24, 2008

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Bianchi e neri, 1967

Alberto Burri

Bianchi e neri, 1967

Sale Date: October 24, 2008

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Bianchi e neri

Alberto Burri

Bianchi e neri

Sale Date: October 24, 2008

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Serigrafie (Serie di sei tavole) (set..., 1973–1976

Alberto Burri

Serigrafie (Serie di sei tavole) (set..., 1973–1976

Sale Date: October 25, 2008

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Bianchi e Neri I, 1967–1968

Alberto Burri

Bianchi e Neri I, 1967–1968

Sale Date: October 28, 2008

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Pagina, 1953–1954

Alberto Burri

Pagina, 1953–1954

Sale Date: October 20, 2008

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Rosso, 1953

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: October 20, 2008

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Nero F, 1956

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: October 20, 2008

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