Antonio Sanfilippo *
(Partanna-Trapani 1923–1980 Rome)
Untitled, 1960, signed (faded), inscribed on the reverse by Antonella Sanfilippo, tempera on canvas, 116 x 73 cm, framed
Provenance:
A. Sanfilippo Collection, Rome
Galleria Arco d‘Alibert, Rome (label on the reverse)
Valente Arte Contemporanea, Finale Ligure
Galleria Extra Moenia, Todi (stamp on the reverse)
European Private Collection
Exhibited:
Kamakura, Young Italian painters, Museum of Modern Art, 8 September - 29 October 1961, exh. cat. no. 66 with ill.
Gibellina, Sanfilippo. Opere 1947–1979, Museo Civico d‘Arte Contemporanea, 3 June-15 August 1983, exh. cat. with ill.
Rome, Antonio Sanfilippo. Opere dal 1957 al 1962, Galleria Arco d‘Alibert, 30 October - 30 December 1991
Finale Ligure, Antonio Sanfilippo, Valente Arte Contemporanea, July-August 1993, exh. cat. with ill.
Parma, Forma 1, Galleria d‘Arte Niccoli, 1 October - 15 November 1994, then Osaka, Kodama Gallery
Verona, Palazzo Forti, 16 December 1994 - 28 February 1995 (label on the reverse)
London, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 1995
Cesena, Civica Galleria d‘Arte, 1995
Literature:
G. Appella, F. D‘Amico (ed.), Antonio Sanfilippo. Catalogo Generale dei Dipinti dal 1942 al 1977, DE Luca Editori d‘Arte, Rome 2007, p. 190, no. 358 with ill.
“The image is determined by a complex articulation of signs linked or
superimposed in groupings that create space and emotion.”
Antonio Sanfilippo 1923-1980, ed by Fabrizio D’Amico, Skira 2001, p. 116
