(born in Foglianise in 1954)
Il Tempo. Omnes vulnerant ultima necat, 1986, titled, signed and dated Il Tempo / Omnes vulnerant ultima necat / Nicola De Maria / Nicola Pinxit 1986 on the reverse, acrylic on canvas laid down on canvas, 104 x 157 cm, framed, (AR)

Photo certificate signed by the artist

Provenance:
Galérie Lelong, Paris (label on the reverse)
Nuova Brerarte, Milan, 12 March 1990, lot 119
Galleria Toselli, Milan
Casa d’aste Farsetti, Prato, 27 May 2000, lot 291
Galleria Contini, Venice
European Private Collection

Exhibition:
Nimes, Musée des Beaux Arts, Nicola de Maria. Testa Orfica, 3 July - 30 September 1990, exh. cat. page 238, no. 159 with ill.
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Camera con vista. Arte e interni in Italia 1900–2000, 18 April - 15 July 2007, exh. cat. p. 170 with ill.

Literature:
Interni, no. 4, April 2004, Mondadori, p. 25 with ill.
Eigen Huis & Interieur, no. 9, September 2008, Sanoma Media Netherlands Group, Hoofddorp, pp. 246-247 with ill.
Brava Casa, Turkey 2009, ill. on the cover and p. 65
Brava Casa, Croatia, July 2009, ill. on the cover and p. 29
Brava Casa Italy, June 2009, ill. on the cover and p. 3

Fac ergo, mi Lucili […] omnes horas complectere; sic fiet ut minus ex crastino pendeas, si hodierno manum inieceris. Dum differtur vita transcurrit. Omnia, Lucili, aliena sunt, tempus tantum nostrum est.
(Lucius Annaeus Seneca, first moral letter to Lucilius)

Therefore, my dear Lucilius […] hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time.