Valerio Adami’s Penchant For Puzzles

Published on 11 October 2022, by Caroline Legrand

Auction on 21 October 2022 - 13:30 (CEST) - Salle 5 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

The Italian artist’s delimited spaces and simplified lines may appear self-explanatory, but his painting is more complex than it looks.

Valerio Adami (born 1935), Senza titolo or La vostra opinione su questo quadro, 1972-1973,... Valerio Adami’s Penchant For Puzzles

Valerio Adami (born 1935), Senza titolo or La vostra opinione su questo quadro, 1972-1973, acrylic on canvas, titled, initialed, dated “27.10.72–9.2.73”, 199 x 148 cm/78.34 x 58.26 in.
Estimate: €20,000/25,000

Valerio Adami was a friend of Marie-Régine Didier, fondly known as “Catoune”, who died in 2021. Her collection will be dispersed at the Hôtel Drouot on October 21 . Was she smitten by this work’s sharp, graphic black lines or the enigmatic sentence handwritten by the artist at the…

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A COLLECTION FROM THE FAUBOURG SAINT-GERMAIN - From Paris to New York, from New York to Paris

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Marie-Régine Didier followed her tastes, mixing styles in her New York and faubourg Saint-Honoré apartments without caring about trendiness. Her eclecticism is highly appealing.