Carla Accardi (Italian, 1924 - 2014) Lot n° 17

Arancio su tela grezza - 1999 Vinyl on canvas 60 x 50 cm Signature, number (690A) and date on verso Title, technique and dimensions on verso Accompanied by a certificate of provenance by Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, dated 30.06.2004. One of the key figures of Italian Post-War abstract art, Carla Accardi is one of the founders of Forma 1 (1947-51), together with Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo (her future husband), and Giulio Turcato. Forma 1’s manifesto sought to reconcile Marxism with abstract art. As from the fifties on, she develops her distinctive style of geometric interlocking forms, which over the years would become a personal visual language of almost calligraphic signs. During the sixties, she would paint on sheets of plastic (sicofoil), and with her participation at the 1976 Venice Biennale, she would become a major influence on Arte Povera. In the eighties Accardi returns to painting on (raw) canvas, further exploring the path of her earlier paintings through the use of geometrical signs in chromatic juxtapositions. Provenance Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels Exhibited 2004, Brussels, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Carla Accardi