Mixed media . Watercolor, gouache, oil, silver bronze over pencil. Titled and dated in pencil on the reverse and on the backing sheet. On a sheet from a sketchbook, right side perforated. 20.5 x 15 cm. , the full sheet.
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• Abstraction in the artist's typical whimsical and colorful expression.
• The work is part of a group inspired by childhood memories that de Maria began in the 1980s.
• Nicola de Maria's works have featured in the Venice Biennale three times and at documenta 7 in Kassel.
• Works by the artist are in the collections of the Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in Turin and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
LITERATURE: Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, 35th auction, Art of the 19th and 20th Century, November 22, 1993, lot 322 (ill.).