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Modern and Contemporary Art
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Artist: Alberto Burri, Italian, 1915–1995

Nero ‘56

1956

Collage with burlap, paper and oil on canvas

image: 45.72 × 80.01 cm (18 × 31 1/2 in.)
Richard Brown Baker, B.A. 1935, Collection
2008.19.47
Status: 
Not on view
Culture: 
Italian
Period: 
20th century
Classification: 
Paintings
Provenance: 

Artist, Rome, 7/56

Bibliography: 

“Acquisitions, July 1, 2007–June 30, 2008,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2008): 202.

Jennifer Farrell et al., Get There First, Decide Promptly: The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 194–95, fig. 1.

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