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CATALOGUE RAISONNÈ
GV6108
Dafne
Rome, 1961
Oil on Canvas
31.5 x 39.4 in., 80 x 100 cm. Signed lower right Whereabouts unknown
Exhib: Vanni, Galleria Schneider, Rome, October 28 - November 13, 1961
Mostra Nazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1963
18 Artists from Italy, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 1965
27 Artists from Italy,
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, November 1965
27 Artists from Italy, Ackland Art Center, Chapel Hill, NC, December 1965
27 Artists from Italy, Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC, January-February 1966
GV6109
Red Dot
Rome, 1961
Oil on Canvas
45 x 57.5 in., 114 x 146 cm. Private Collection, Los Angeles, CA, USA
This work denotes the characteristic way in which Vanni oscillates between contradictory dualism and unifying synthesis. After the extreme contrasts of the last Greek paintings, he wants to bring back an integration between the various components of the painting. To achieve this, he accentuated the gestural strokes, creating a more convulsive composition where light and dark overlap in an indissoluble knot. He further brings the planes closer together with colored glazings on the white texture, darkening it until the line of demarcation with the black shapes disappears.
GV6110
A Wood Revisited
Rome, 1961
Oil on Canvas
31.5 x 39.4 in., 80 x 100 cm. Private Collection, Rome, Italy
GV6111
Growth and Separation
Rome, 1961
Oil on Canvas
35 x 46 in., 89 x 117 cm.
reworked later as Ritorno su un pensiero primitivo (GV6223)