(Florence 1888–1971 Meudon)
Intersections n. 7, 1965, signed and dated; signed, titled and dated on the reverse, oil on canvas, 146.5 x 97 cm, framed

We are grateful to Daniel Abadie for confirming the authenticity of this work, which will be included in the catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared.

Provenance:
Collection of the artist
Galerie Henri Dipont, Lille
Christie’s Paris, 2 April 2003, lot. 21
Tornabuoni Arte, Milan and Florence (certificate of provenance available)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Paris, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, travelling exhibition, 1970/1972, exh. cat. p. 32 (label on the reverse)

Literature:
M. Gasser, Grandeur de Magnelli, XXe Siècle, Paris 1967, p. 116, no. 29
N. Ponente, Alberto Magnelli, Il Collezionista Editore, Rome 1973, p. 200
A. Maisonnier, L’oeuvre peint. Catalogue raisonné, XXe Siècle, Paris 1975, p. 78-79, no. 893, with ill.

[Magnelli] leads us into believing that a
picture is not something outside reality:
it is an instrument adapted to the tuning in to one or
many aspects of numberless realities; a means of stripping
the physical universe of some of its accessories;
an object of knowledge‘
M. Mendes