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Artist: Alberto Burri, Italian, 1915–1995
Nero ‘56
1956
Collage; 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:
Sasha M. Newman, ed., Collecting with Richard Brown Baker, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1995), 58, ill.
“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.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.