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Piero Dorazio
Iosa III, 1968.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 45,600 Sold:
€ 49,020 / $ 55,882 (incl. surcharge)
286
Piero Dorazio
Iosa III, 1968.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 45,600 Sold:
€ 49,020 / $ 55,882 (incl. surcharge)
Piero Dorazio
1927 - 2005
Iosa III. 1968.
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed “Berlin” on the reverse side of the canvas. 85 x 111 cm (33.4 x 43.7 in). [CH].
• A distinctive work with intense colors from the late 1960s.
• In the year this work was created, Dorazio spent six months in Berlin at the invitation of the DAAD Artists-in-Residence Program.
• In 1965, Dorazio was featured alongside Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Bridget Riley, Frank Stella, and others in the legendary exhibition “The Responsive Eye” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
• With layers of vibrant, colorful stripes and superimposed strips, Dorazio made color, light, and rhythmic structures the protagonists of his paintings.
Accompanied by a photo certificate, issued by the Archivio Piero Dorazio in March, 2026. The work is documented in the Archivio Piero Dorazio, Milan.
PROVENANCE: Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Rom (with the gallery label on the stretcher).
Private collection, Germany (acquired in 1992, Sotheby's, Milan).
Private collection, Bavaria (inherited from the above).
LITERATURE: Sotheby's, Milan, Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, November 24, 1992, lot 211.
1927 - 2005
Iosa III. 1968.
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed “Berlin” on the reverse side of the canvas. 85 x 111 cm (33.4 x 43.7 in). [CH].
• A distinctive work with intense colors from the late 1960s.
• In the year this work was created, Dorazio spent six months in Berlin at the invitation of the DAAD Artists-in-Residence Program.
• In 1965, Dorazio was featured alongside Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Bridget Riley, Frank Stella, and others in the legendary exhibition “The Responsive Eye” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
• With layers of vibrant, colorful stripes and superimposed strips, Dorazio made color, light, and rhythmic structures the protagonists of his paintings.
Accompanied by a photo certificate, issued by the Archivio Piero Dorazio in March, 2026. The work is documented in the Archivio Piero Dorazio, Milan.
PROVENANCE: Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Rom (with the gallery label on the stretcher).
Private collection, Germany (acquired in 1992, Sotheby's, Milan).
Private collection, Bavaria (inherited from the above).
LITERATURE: Sotheby's, Milan, Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, November 24, 1992, lot 211.
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