(Rome 1927–2005 Todi)
Sosia II, 1973, titled, signed and dated Piero Dorazio 1973, on the reverse, oil on canvas, 75 x 105 cm, on stretcher, (AR)

Provenance:
Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome (label on the stretcher)
Galleria d’Arte Spagnoli, Florence (label and stamp on the reverse)
Marcello Tacchino Collection, Alessandria (stamp and signature on the reverse)
European Private Collection

Literature:
M. Volpi Orlandini, Dorazio, Alfieri Venezia, 1977, no. 1384 with ill.

The pictorial experience is by its nature tied to the perception of space through the sensations of “colour“ (light) and “form“ (drawing and composition), which convey to the observer the spatial characteristics as well as the formal and chromatic physiognomy of the image. The character of the whole is determined by the quality of the parts which constitute it, and its meaning reveales itself in the waus of the making (pictorial), by the way the above-mentioned “qualities“ are made perceptible. […] In painting what has a significant role is the material or pictorial impasto, the variable intensity of colour at the surface, the “touch“ or brush stroke, the internal structure and the optical weight of the surface, of course the com position, and in short, everything that contributes to the “make-up“ of a picture, not just as a technique but as a combination of expressive means conveying a meaning in themselves.
(Piero Dorazio)