(Boston 1913–2000 Parma)
X-L-2–83, 1983, signed, signed and titled on the reverse, collage and mixed media on canvas, 137 x 152.3 cm, framed

This work is registered in the Archivio Marca-Relli, Galleria d’Arte Niccoli, Parma and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity

Provenance:
Private Collection, Parma
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Parma, Galleria d’Arte Niccoli, 1990, p. 45 with ill.

Literature:
K. Wolbert, Conrad Marca-Relli, works 1945-1996, Catalogûe of the Exhibition Held At Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt 2000,
p. 202 with ill.
D. Anfam, M. Dabrowski, Conrad Marca-Relli - Protagonista dell’Espressionismo Astratto Americano, Bruno Alfieri Editore, Milan 2008, pp. 179, 295 with ill.

“I never thought of myself as an abstract expressionist per se, because I felt that figure to me was also very important, and that the idea of not painting the figure as a law against the figure itself irritated me.I felt that whenever you want to paint – weather it’s a figure, a still life, a landscape – they’re all possible solutions to the problem that you want to express.
If I start a non-objective painting, just for saying, I’m going to paint some color forms and let them work together: to me that’s not a satisfying image of painting, because it’s the painting and not the figure that I’m painting”
Conrad Marca-Relli