Piero Dorazio
Piero Dorazio
1927 - 2005
Puzzle II. 1968.
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated, and titled on the reverse of the canvas. 170 x 150 cm (66.9 x 59 in). [AW].
• PROTAGONIST Color in an expressive composition of space, light, and form.
• TURNING POINT A decisive transition from the dense “Reticoli” grids to open-plan Color Field Painting.
• PUZZLE Interlocking color fields create a fluid, almost architectural sense of depth and dynamism.
• SIGNIFICANT BERLIN PERIOD: A monumental work created as part of the DAAD Artists-in-Residence Program.
• MUSEUM QUALITY Another work from 1968 is in the Nationalgalerie Berlin.
PROVENANCE: The Owens-Corning Collection, Toledo, Ohio.
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above).
EXHIBITION: Piero Dorazio, Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome, Nov./Dec. 1968 (with illustration; exhibition label on the reverse of the stretcher).
Piero Dorazio, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, Feb. 1969 (with illustration).
The Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation Art Collections, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, March 13–April 10, 1977.
Piero Dorazio—A Retrospective, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1979–80, cat. no. 42 (with an exhibition label on the reverse of the stretcher).
LITERATURE: Marisa Volpi Orlandini, Jacques Lassaigne, and Giorgio Crisafi, Dorazio, Milan 1977 / Stuttgart 1978, CR no. 1060 (with illustration).
Piero Dorazio
1927 - 2005
Puzzle II. 1968.
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated, and titled on the reverse of the canvas. 170 x 150 cm (66.9 x 59 in). [AW].
• PROTAGONIST Color in an expressive composition of space, light, and form.
• TURNING POINT A decisive transition from the dense “Reticoli” grids to open-plan Color Field Painting.
• PUZZLE Interlocking color fields create a fluid, almost architectural sense of depth and dynamism.
• SIGNIFICANT BERLIN PERIOD: A monumental work created as part of the DAAD Artists-in-Residence Program.
• MUSEUM QUALITY Another work from 1968 is in the Nationalgalerie Berlin.
PROVENANCE: The Owens-Corning Collection, Toledo, Ohio.
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above).
EXHIBITION: Piero Dorazio, Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome, Nov./Dec. 1968 (with illustration; exhibition label on the reverse of the stretcher).
Piero Dorazio, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, Feb. 1969 (with illustration).
The Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation Art Collections, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, March 13–April 10, 1977.
Piero Dorazio—A Retrospective, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1979–80, cat. no. 42 (with an exhibition label on the reverse of the stretcher).
LITERATURE: Marisa Volpi Orlandini, Jacques Lassaigne, and Giorgio Crisafi, Dorazio, Milan 1977 / Stuttgart 1978, CR no. 1060 (with illustration).
