About the Artwork
Painting is Made of Readymades
1983
Lucio Pozzi
born 1935
American
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Color offset lithograph with collage on white wove paper
Sheet: 27 3/8 × 19 5/8 inches (69.5 × 49.8 cm)
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Gift of Jan and Ingeborg van der Marck in honor of Alan and Marianne Schwartz
F1987.51.3
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: Pozzi
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 6/148 Inscribed, with date of original drawing, in pencil, lower right: 76 Inscribed, in artist's hand, on plate, center: PAINTING IS MADE OF | READYMADES: HAND, BRUSH, | CANVAS, WALL, COLOR [crossed through] PIGMENTS, | COLORS DILUTED OR THICK, | DIMENSIONS, TRANSFORMATIONS, DATA, INTERFERENCES, VISIBILITY, | DISTANCE, DENSITY, STRATA, | ADDING, REMOVING, MOTIONLESSNESS, | DIRECTIONS. THEY ARE | ALL LIFTED FROM THEIR | NORMAL CONTEXT AND | COMBINED IN OBJECTS THE | AIM OF WHICH I DON'T UNDERSTAND. Inscribed, perpendicular to previous inscription: PAINTING IS | ASTONISHING. | UNDESCRIBABLE, | USELESS AND | MODEST. IT IS | LONG, HARD, I'D LIKE TO LICK IT. | 1975 | 1975
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Jan and Ingeborg van der Marck;1987-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Lucio Pozzi, Painting is Made of Readymades, 1983, color offset lithograph with collage on white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Jan and Ingeborg van der Marck in honor of Alan and Marianne Schwartz, F1987.51.3.
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