Biography

Piero Dorazio was an Italian painter.

He drew inspiration and ideas for his art from his studies of European and non-European art history, but especially from Raffaello Santi and Antonio del Pollajuolo, the French Impressionists, the Italian Futurists and from Vasily Vasilievich Kandinsky, Kasimir Severinovich Malevich and Piet Mondrian.

His “abstract” non-representational pictorial language is evident in the use of pure primary colours, which he overlays, weaves and repeats ornamentally in stripes, strokes, lines, fields and surfaces.

In addition to planar painting, to which he also lent a structured surface using aluminium, wood and Plexiglas, he created lithographs and etchings, glass windows, mosaics, ceramics and stage sets.

Dorazio is regarded as one of the most important Italian artists of the second half of the 20th century and as a pioneer of abstraction in Italy.

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ARTWORKS Piero Dorazio

Ohne Titel - Blue
Without title – Blue, 2000
pastel on handmade blue pigmented Lafranca paper
26.5 x 33.5
Piero Dorazio
Without title – Blue

2000

pastel on handmade blue pigmented Lafranca paper

26.5 x 33.5

signed and dated lower right

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Provenance

François Lafranca (purchased directly from the artist) Private collection, Switzerland

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Donau
Donau, 1988
gouache on solid paper
80 x 180 cm
Piero Dorazio
Donau

1988

gouache on solid paper

80 x 180 cm

signed and dated lower right

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Provenance

  • Collection Fischbacher (Fisba), St. Gallen
  • Private collection, Switzerland
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Dada I
Dada I, 2003
oil on canvas
60 x 40 cm
Piero Dorazio
Dada I

2003

oil on canvas

60 x 40 cm

verso signed, dated with description - atelier's stamp 5881

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Provenance

  • Achim Moeller Fine Art Ltd, NY, USA
  • Private collection Switzerland
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Artaxata
Artaxata, 1995
oil on canvas
45 x 45 cm
Piero Dorazio
Artaxata

1995

oil on canvas

45 x 45 cm

verso signed, dated and titled, incl studio stamp

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verso signed, titled and dated PIERO DORAZIO / 1995 / „ARTAXATA“ studio stamp „STUDIO PIERO DORAZIO 3377“

Provenance

  • Erker Galerie, St. Gallen
  • Galerie Widmer Auktionen AG, St. Galllen
  • Private collection, Switzerland
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Emesa
Emesa, 1995
oil on canvas
45 x 45 cm
Piero Dorazio
Emesa

1995

oil on canvas

45 x 45 cm

verso signed, titled and dated plus atelier's stamp with inventory number

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Verso signed, titled and dated: PIERO DORAZIO / EMESA / 1995 Studio stamp with inventory number “STUDIO PIERO DORAZIO 3368”.

Provenance

  • Erker Gallery, St. Gallen
  • Private collection, St. Gallen
  • Galerie Widmer Auktionen AG, St. Galllen
  • Private collection, Switzerland
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Ohne Titel
Without title, 1973
color on plexiglass
44.7 x 26.7 cm
Piero Dorazio
Without title

1973

color on plexiglass

44.7 x 26.7 cm

signed and dated lower right

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Provenance

Galerie Arteba, Zurich Estate of Hans Grieshaber, Zurich Thomas Seyffer, Zollikerberg Private collection, Switzerland

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