Marlborough Gallery, New York
Collection of J. Reeves, New York
Acquired by the present owner by March 1969

Künstlerhaus Graz, Trigon 63-Malerei und Plastik der Gegenwart aus Italien, Jugoslawien, Osterreich, September - October 1963
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, Group Zero, October - December 1964, illustrated

Marisa Volpi Orlandi, Jacques Lassaigne and Giorgio Crisafri, Dorazio, Venice 1977, cat no. 550, illustrated

This work is in very good condition overall. There is minor evidence of light handling to the edges, which are slightly soiled, and there is evidence of hairline craquelure at the pull margins. Under very close inspection, there are scattered pinpoint black rub marks along the right edge and a few scattered red pinpoint accretions along the bottom left edge. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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"The surface of a canvas is a surface of two dimensions, and from that surface we make an optical phenomenon, we create an image that produces in the observer a sensation, an emotion, from all of which arises successively a problem, a reasoning, a thought, an idea, let us say in fact a mode of thought and of the spirit; if we do that, then we are in presence of art."
Piero Dorazio

This work is registered with a photo-certificate at Archivo Piero Dorazio Milan dated October 1, 2019.