(born in Alcamo, Italy in 1929 - lives and works in Milan)
96 Ovali bianchi, 1965, signed and dated Simeti 1965 on the reverse, collage of canvas on canvas, acrylic, 130 x 150 cm, on stretcher

This work is registered in the Archivio Turi Simeti supervised by the Gallery Dep Art, Milan under no. 1965-B1301 and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Provenance:
The artist
The Mayor Gallery, London (label on the reverse)
acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited:
London, The Mayor Gallery, Turi Simeti: Pianissimo, September 2012, exh. cat. p. 17, with ill.
Alcamo (Trapani), ex collegio dei Gesuiti, Turi Simeti:
Opere 1960–2010, 2010, exh. cat. p. 6, with ill.
Padua, Arte Padova, Omaggio a Turi Simeti, 2006

Literature:
AAVV, Turi Simeti. Catalogo generale, Volume I, Cristian Maretti Editore, Monaco 2007, p. 28
Antonio Addamiano / Federico Sardella, Turi Simeti. Catalogo ragionato 1960–2016, Skira, Milan 2017, p. 515 no. 112 with ill.

“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 “96 Ovali bianchi“ (1965) here proposed.

(cf Luca Beatrice, in Turi Simeti. Opere 1990-2004, p. 9)