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

Alberto Burri (1,262 results)

Sans titre

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: April 10, 1992

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MUFFA, 1951

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: February 26, 1992

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COMBUSTIONE, 1964

Alberto Burri

COMBUSTIONE, 1964

Sale Date: November 27, 1991

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TRITTICO 3 E (1979/81), 1979–1981

Alberto Burri

TRITTICO 3 E (1979/81), 1979–1981

Sale Date: November 27, 1991

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TRITTICO 2 E, 1979–1981

Alberto Burri

TRITTICO 2 E, 1979–1981

Sale Date: November 27, 1991

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TRITTICO 1 E (1979/81), 1979–1981

Alberto Burri

TRITTICO 1 E (1979/81), 1979–1981

Sale Date: November 27, 1991

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PRESENZA GRAFICA, 1972

Alberto Burri

PRESENZA GRAFICA, 1972

Sale Date: November 27, 1991

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COMBUSTIONE

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: November 25, 1991

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BIANCO E NERO. DABEI: ANTONIO SCORDIA...., 1971

Alberto Burri

BIANCO E NERO. DABEI: ANTONIO SCORDIA...., 1971

Sale Date: October 26, 1991

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NERO CRETTO, 1975

Alberto Burri

NERO CRETTO, 1975

Sale Date: June 27, 1991

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BIANCO PLASTICA BB4, 1967

Alberto Burri

BIANCO PLASTICA BB4, 1967

Sale Date: June 27, 1991

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Senza titolo, 1973–1976

Alberto Burri

Senza titolo, 1973–1976

Sale Date: May 7, 1991

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MUFFA, 1959

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: May 7, 1991

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ACQUAFORTE 6, 1977

Alberto Burri

ACQUAFORTE 6, 1977

Sale Date: May 7, 1991

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DA BIANCHI E NERI II, 1969

Alberto Burri

DA BIANCHI E NERI II, 1969

Sale Date: May 7, 1991

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A)ACQUAFORTE F B)ACQUAFORTE + SERIGRAFIA G , 1975

Alberto Burri

A)ACQUAFORTE F B)ACQUAFORTE + SERIGRAFIA G , 1975

Sale Date: May 7, 1991

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Untitled

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: May 1, 1991

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COMBUSTIONE - OMAGGIO A UNGAR-ETTI, 1968, 1968–1968

Alberto Burri

COMBUSTIONE - OMAGGIO A UNGAR-ETTI, 1968, 1968–1968

Sale Date: April 9, 1991

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NERO, 1986, 1986–1986

Alberto Burri

NERO, 1986, 1986–1986

Sale Date: April 9, 1991

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COMBUSTIONE

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: December 12, 1990

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Alberto Burri

"COMBUSTIONE" 1957, 1957–1957

Sale Date: December 12, 1990

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Composition

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: December 7, 1990

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Composition

Alberto Burri

Sale Date: December 7, 1990

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CELLOTEX (1976), 1976–1976

Alberto Burri

CELLOTEX (1976), 1976–1976

Sale Date: December 4, 1990

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