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Screenprint Angles in Unity
Presented by Mariolina Colla 1972
abstraction
irregular forms
non-representational
paper print screenprint
Screenprint (Angles in Unity)
image: 352 × 502 mm
Presented by Mariolina Colla 1972
<p><b>Ettore Colla</b><span> 1896-1968 </span>
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<p><span><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-angles-in-unity-p01016" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01016</span></a> </span><b>Screenprint (Angles in Unity)</b><span> 1953 </span>
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<p><span>Not inscribed by the artist. Signed 'Giorgio de Marchis' and 'Sandra Pinto' on the verso</span>
<br/><span>Screenprint on paper, 13 7/8 x 19 (35.3 x 50.2)</span>
<br/><span>Presented by Signora Mariolina Colla 1972</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
Giorgio de Marchis and Sandra Pinto, </span><i>Colla</i><span>
(Rome 1972), No.63c, p.58</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
</span><i>Arti Visive</i><span>, 1st series, Nos.6-7, January 1954, n.p. (dated 1953)</span>
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<p><span><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> executed by Giorgio Ascani based on 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/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> by Colla made in 1951 (the painting seems to have been originally called 'Angoli in una Unità'). The lower <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/f/form" title="Glossary definition for 'Form'"><span>form</span></a> has been slightly modified in 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>. Made in 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 50. Like </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P01017" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P01017');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P01017</span></a><span>
and </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P01015" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P01015');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P01015</span></a><span>, it was signed on the back by the authors of the standard monograph on Colla's work. </span>
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<p><span>This print and </span><span>P01017</span><span>
were reproduced in </span><i>Arti Visive</i><span> in January 1954 to illustrate an article by Emilio Villa on 'Scultura di Ettore Colla': the article states that the reproductions are of some of Colla's most recent works. Both were captioned simply 'E. Colla, 1953.' </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.128-9, reproduced p.128</span>
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abstraction irregular forms non-representational