Screenprint on paper
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Screenprint
Presented by Mariolina Colla 1972
abstraction
colour
geometric
non-representational
paper print screenprint
Screenprint
image: 276 × 346 mm
Presented by Mariolina Colla 1972
<strong>Ettore Colla</strong> 1896-1968
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<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/colla-screenprint-p01015" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01015</span></a> <strong>Screenprint</strong> 1953
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Not inscribed by the artist. Signed 'Giorgio de Marchis' and 'Sandra Pinto' on the verso<br/>
Screenprint on paper, 13 7/8 x 19 3/4 (35.3 x 50.2)<br/>
Presented by Signora Mariolina Colla 1972<br/>
<em>Lit:</em> Giorgio de Marchis and Sandra Pinto, <em>Colla</em> (Rome 1972), No.68a, p.60, repr.
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<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/screenprint" title="Glossary definition for 'Screenprint'"><span>Screenprint</span></a> made by Giorgio Ascani from a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/collage" title="Glossary definition for 'Collage'"><span>collage</span></a> by Colla; Giorgio de Marchis and Sandra Pinto suggest that the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> may have been inspired by a painting by Capogrossi. An <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/edition" title="Glossary definition for 'Edition'"><span>edition</span></a> of 1500 was printed to serve as the cover for <em>Arti Visive</em>, 1st series, Nos.6-7, January 1954 (the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a> being folded over to form the front and back of the cover); but this example is from a further edition of 50 not used for this purpose.
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.129, reproduced p.129


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abstraction colour geometric non-representational