Afro (Basaldella)
Preliminary drawing for Paris UNESCO Mural, “Garden of Hope”
1957
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Afro (Basaldella)
Preliminary drawing for Paris UNESCO Mural, “Garden of Hope”
1957
Physical Qualities
Brush and black wash with collage elements, Sheet: 608 x 1417 mm. (23 15/16 x 55 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. I.W. Burnham II, for the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection
Object Number
1962.110
On two sheets of paper
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1962; Mr. and Mrs. I.W. Burnham II; C. Viviano Gallery
Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di trento e rovereto, "Afro Basaldella. The American Period," 17 March - 8 July 2012.
BMA, "Recent Accessions to the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 30 October - 16 December 1962.
C. Viviano Gallery, New York, 1959.
BMA, "Recent Accessions to the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 30 October - 16 December 1962.
C. Viviano Gallery, New York, 1959.
BMA News, vol. XXV, no. 3, Spring 1962, p. 22 (illus).
BMA News, vol. XXIX, no. 3-4, 1967, p. 6 (not illus).
"The Thomas Edward Benesch Memorial Collection," BMA, 1970, unpaginated.
P. L. Siena, M. Vescovo, "Afro La soluzione lirica", Museo d'Arte Moderna, exhibition catalogue, Bolzano, 15 September - 19 November; Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Wörlen, Passau, 1 Dezember - 11 Februar; Landesmuseum, Mainz, 25 Februar - 8 April, Museion publisher, Bolzano, 1995, no page, (r.b/w)
Afro: Il giardino della Speranza (Rome: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1997)
AA.VV., "Afro Il giardino della speranza", exhibition catalogue Paris, Maison de l'UNESCO, 25 Feb-23 Mar.1999, DataArs publisher, Roma, 1999, p.53 (r.b/w
Gabriella Belli. "Afro: The American Period." Trento and Roverreto: Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto and Milan: Mondadori Eleca, 2012, cat. no. 40, pp. 266-271 and p. 324, repr. color on pp. 266-267
Inscribed: Recto: at lower right in black ink: "Afro '58"; Verso: at upper right, in graphite: "#13"
