Highlights

Point d’hostilité n° 1

1944
Alberto Magnelli

Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right; Signed, titled and dated on the reverse
130 x 162 cm

EXHIBITIONS:
Venice, XXV Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte de Venezia (Biennale de Venise), salle XLVIII, Grande rétrospective Magnelli, 18 peintures de 1914 à 1948, 1950, no.10, cat. no. 12, texts by Léon Degand
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbe Museum; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans / van Beuningen; Collection Philippe Dotremont, 1954, cat. no. 50, ill.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Alberto Magnelli, rétrospective, 100 œuvres de 1914 – 1954, Nov. 1954, cat. no. 64, ill. pl.14, texts by Léon Degand, 21 ill., 1 photographie de l’artiste Zurich, Kunsthaus, Alberto Magnelli, rétrospective, 230 œuvres de 1907 à 1962, 4 May – 3 June 1963, cat. no. 81, texts by René Wehrli, Jacques Lassaigne, Jean Arp, 24 p., 21 ill.
Milan, Ruggerini & Zonca, Magnelli, Oct. – Nov. 1991, cat., ill. col. on the front cover, ill. full page col pl. no. 10

LITERATURE:
Jornal des Artes, no. 3, São Paulo, June 1949, p. 47
Adrian Heath, Abstract Painting, its origin and meaning, Alec Tirandi Ltd, Londres 1953, pl. 31 Art d’Aujourd’hui, Vol no. 7, Nov. 1954, p.24
Quadrum, no. 1, Bruxelles, May 1956, p. 202
François Le Lionnais, Magnelli, Ed. Galerie de France, Paris 1960, p. 27
Guy Habasque, L’Œil, no. 70, Magnelli, 1960, p. 59
Murilo Mendes, Magnelli, Ed. dell’ Ateneo, Rome 1964, pl. LI
Expo 68, no. 2, March – Apr. 1968
Nello Ponente, Alberto Magnelli, Il Colleszionista editore, Rome 1973, ill. full page p. 91
Anne Maisonnier, Alberto Magnelli, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, XXe siècle, Paris 1975, no. 536 p. 125
Balthazar, Sept-Oct 2014, ill. p.67
This painting was awarded the Prix de la Critique d’Art de Belgique in 1955, after the Magnelli exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 1954