Grande Ferro M1

Alberto Burri

1958

Artist Alberto Burri (Italian, 1915–1995)
Title Grande Ferro M1
Date 1958
Medium Welded iron with paint and nails
Dimensions unframed | 78 3/8 x 79 in.
framed | 78 7/8 x 79 1/2 x 2 in.
Credit line Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., 1963
Copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome
Object number WU 4176

Technique painting
welding
Work type painting

La scoperta dell'America (The Rediscovery of America)
Gallerie d'Italia, 04/12/2017 - 09/17/2017

From Picasso to Fontana: Collecting Modern and Postwar Art in the Eisendrath Years, 1960–1968
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/23/2015 - 04/19/2015

Gesture, Scrape, Combine, Calculate: Postwar Abstraction from the Permanent Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 08/20/2010 - 09/20/2010

International Abstraction: Art of the 1950s from the Washington University Collections
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/22/1999 - 03/28/1999

Modernism at Midstream: From Europe to America and Back Again
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/04/1983 - 11/06/1983

Works of Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Saint Louis Art Museum, 01/23/1968 - 03/24/1968

Burri—Fontana
Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, Ohio), 02/08/1968 - 02/29/1968
Wilmington College (Wilmington, Ohio), 11/20/1966 - 12/11/1966
Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio), 10/21/1966 - 11/13/1966
Wells College (Aurora, New York), 09/23/1966 - 10/09/1966
Portland Art Museum (Portland, Maine), 01/06/1967 - 01/29/1967
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, Florida), 05/22/1967 - 06/18/1967
University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida), 07/07/1967 - 07/30/1967
Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York, Oswego (Oswego, New York), 09/17/1967 - 10/08/1967
Root Art Center, Hamiton College (Clinton, New York), 10/22/1967 - 11/12/1967
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, 11/27/1967 - 12/18/1967
University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art (Iowa City, Iowa), 01/03/1968 - 01/24/1968

Washington University Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture from Daumier to Pollock
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 04/06/1966 - 05/08/1966

A Galaxy of Treasures from St. Louis Collections
Saint Louis Art Museum, 01/18/1961 - 02/13/1961

Alberto Burri
Martha Jackson Gallery (New York, New York), 02/02/1960 - 02/27/1960

1963
Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.

Inscription Verso across UL and CL, in red paint: Burri 58 / GRANDE / FERRO / M1

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