(Feltre, Belluno 1927–1964 Rome)
Untitled, 1954, signed, dated Tancredi 54 on the reverse, mixed media on masonite, 92 x 125 cm, framed, (AR)

Photo certificate:
Galleria d’arte Il Mappamondo, Milan

Provenance:
Galleria Schettini, Milan (label and stamp on the reverse)
Galleria d’arte Il Mappamondo, Milan
Finarte, 26 March 1991
Sotheby’s, Milan, 24 May 2006
European Private Collection

Exhibitions:
Venice, Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, November - December, 1967, exh. cat. no. 64 with ill. (label on the reverse);
Milan, Galleria Schettini, I Tancredi di Schettini, 13 December 1979 – 8 January 1980, exh. cat. no. 37 with ill. (label on the reverse);
Ferrara, Galleria civica d’Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Tancredi, 25 October 1981 – 3 January 1982, exh. cat. no. 30 with ill. (label on the reverse);
Milan, Brerarte, 1983, catalogue no. 12 with ill.;
Asiago, Galleria d’Arte Contini, Dieci capolavori di Tancredi, 25 December - 28 February 1991, exh. cat. with ill.

Literature:
G. Granzotto, Tancredi, Sacile, Chiesa di San Gregorio, Palazzo Regazzoni Flangini Biglia, 1991, p. 139, no. 49;
M. Dalai Emiliani, Tancredi. I dipinti e gli scritti, Turin 1996, no. 619 with ill. (with incorrect dimensions and date)

I used a very simple ‘form’ to control space: the point. A point is the least measurable geometrical element, and yet the one most immediate to imagine.
Tancredi