(born in Alcamo, Italy, in 1929, lives and works in Milan)
21 ovali bianchi, 1966, signed and dated Simeti 66, on the reverse, acrylic on shaped canvas, diameter 47 cm, framed, (AR)

Photo certificate:
Archivio Turi Simeti, supervised by Galleria Dep Art, Milan, archive no. 1966- B0471, signed by the artist.
This work is registered in the Archivio Turi Simeti, supervised by Galleria Dep Art, Milan, under number 1966-B0471, and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné edited by Antonio Addamiano and Federico Sardella

Provenance:
European Private Collection

“Turi Simeti […] developed his aesthetic research on the basis of a few elements: the construction of a projecting architectural apparatus, the entrance of one or more elliptic forms within the composition, the monochrome painting. After a brief youthful period under the influence of the Informale movement, by way of parenthesis common to the artists of his generation including Piero Manzoni, already in 1962 he presented the first ovals (collages in cardboard on canvas and shortly afterwards canvas on canvas) that soon evolved in the elliptic element that has become his principal distinctive sign. A regular itinerary […]“ that is perfectly exemplified in “21 Ovali Bianchi“ (1966) here proposed.
(cf Luca Beatrice, in Turi Simeti. Opere 1990-2004, p. 9)