Nicola De Maria (1954 Foglianise - lives and works in Turin)
'L.T.A.D.U.A.B. ANGELI + LO SPIRITO DELL'AMORE + DIPINTI MIEI', 1986-87

Oil, graphite, colored pencil on canvas. 50 x 40 cm. Signed on the reverse of the folded canvas, titled: ANGELI + LO SPIRITO DELL'AMORE + DIPINTI MIEI, la testa allegra di un angelo bello (colored pencil) and dated: 1896 - 1987 (pencil), verso with adhesive labels from the Karsten Greve Gallery, Cologne and Galleri Wallner, Malmö as well as two art shipping companies.

Provenance: 1987/88 Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne; acquired there in 1990 from the present owner (copy of invoice enclosed).

Exhibitions: Nicola de Maria, Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne, November 1987 - January 1988; Nicola de Maria, Galleri Wallner, Malmö from April 9th - May 4th 1988 [on loan from Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne].; Bilderstreit. Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960, exhibition of the Museum Ludwig Cologne in the Rheinhallen of the Cologne Trade Fair from April 8th - June 28th 1989 [on loan from Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne].

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Estimate: 12,000 € - 16,000 €

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Literature:

Cladders, Johannes and Galerie Karsten Greve (eds.): Nicola de Maria. La Testa Allegra di un Angelo Bello, Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne 1989, Cologne 1989, p. 35 (illustration in colour).