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GIAN BERTO VANNI
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CATALOGUE RAISONNÈ
GV6020
Momenti della caduta di
Icaro
Rome, 1960
Oil on Canvas
28.5 x 36 in., 72 x 91 cm. Private Collection, Seattle, WA, USA
Exhib: Vanni, Galleria Schneider, Rome, May 17 - 28, 1960
Vanni, Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle, October 1962
Bibl: Gian Berto Vanni, exhib. catalog, Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle, October 1962
GV6021
I giardini di Melusina
Rome, 1960
Oil on Canvas
31.9 x 39.4 in., 81 x 100 cm. Whereabouts unknown
Exhib: Vanni, Otto Seligman Gallery, October 1962
GV6022
L’antro della Sibilla
Rome, 1960
Oil on Canvas
39.4 x 25.6 in., 100 x 65 cm. Signed lower left
Vanni Estate Collection
Exhib: Vanni, Galleria Schneider, Rome, May 17 - 28, 1960
Vanni, Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle, October 1962
GV6023
Verso la Terra dei Feaci
Rome, 1960
Oil on Canvas
39.4 x 31.5 in., 100 x 80 cm. Signed lower right
Private Collection, Mondragone, Italy
Exhib: Vanni, Galleria Schneider, Rome, May 17 - 28, 1960
His travels in Greece suggest
to Vanni the element he had long sought to express the dichotomy that had been missing in his latest works. The plasters observed on the houses of the Cyclades in their materiality are the ideal counterpoint to the fluidity of the forms he was developing. These in turn are characterized more and more markedly as reflections on the surface of the sea fixed in a moment of their continuous mutability. On these ideas Vanni developed the series of Greek paintings. This work is one of the first to be produced, but it already demonstrates the achievement of the new compositional balance in which the allusion