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GIAN BERTO VANNI
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CATALOGUE RAISONNÈ
GV5307
Volo d’uccelli
Yale, New Haven, 1953 Ink on Canvas
Signed lower right Whereabouts unknown
Exhib: Gian Berto Vanni, Galleria Schneider, Rome, March 19 - 31, 1955
Bibl: Vice, Fantasie magiche di Vanni, in “La Settimana Incom Illustrata”, Roma, April 2, 1955
Virgilio Guzzi, G.B. Vanni alla Schneider, in “Il Tempo”, Rome, April 5, 1955
GV5308
Muraglia cinese
Yale, New Haven, 1953
Oil on Masonite
23.5 x 15.5 in., 60 x 39 cm. Vanni Estate Collection
Exhib: Gian Berto Vanni, Galleria Schneider, Rome, March 19 - 31, 1955
Gian Berto Vanni. Opere dal 1950 al 1977, Galleria Nuovo Carpine, Rome, May 1977
This painting created during
Josef Albers' courses is perhaps the one that comes closest to pure abstraction among all Vanni painted in his career. Despite that he said he had been informed for these profiles by the silhouettes of New York's rooftops and the evocative title, we are faced with a poetic that excludes any external reference to validate his own expression. The real conceptual inspiration, underlined by the alternation of chromatic scales, can be found in the structure of music that has always interested Vanni.
This was particularly present at that time from what he was learning from the conversations with Maestro Arturo Toscanini, with whom he spent most of the free time from his studies.
GV5309
Dopo la pioggia
Yale, New Haven, 1953
Oil on Canvas
27.6 x 21.7 in., 70 x 55 cm. Private Collection, Milan, Italy
Exhib: Gian Berto Vanni, Galleria Schneider, Rome, March 19 - 31, 1955
[IMAGE MISSING] GV5310
Bassorilievo
Paris, 1953 Whereabouts unknown
Exhib: Gian Berto Vanni, Galleria Schneider, Rome, March 19 - 31, 1955