Piero Dorazio
Italian, 1927-2005
Piero Dorazio (Rome, June 29, 1927 - Perugia, May 17, 2005) was an Italian painter. His work was related to color field painting, lyrical abstraction and other forms of abstract art.
Dorazio was born in Rome. His father was a civil servant, while his mother was interested in history and art. Dorazio attended Julius Caesar Lyceum (high school) in Rome. The family fled to their homeland province of Abruzzo in 1943. After the war, Dorazio worked briefly as a translator for the British Army and then studied architecture at the University of Rome.
He was influenced by futurists such as Gino Severini, Antonio Corpora, Enrico Prampolini, and Giacomo Balla, attracting him to painting. An aversion to their right-wing views pushed him to align instead with left-leaning artists like Renato Guttuso. Along with Pietro Consagra, Achille Perilli, and Giulio Turcato, he helped formulate a manifesto and establish a group of abstract artists in 1947 called Forma I. Although imbued with socialist leanings, the group did not follow the realist social commentary furthered by Guttuso but proposed to reclaim abstraction from Futurism. In 1947 Dorazio won a prize and a stipend from the French government to study at the École des Beaux-Arts of Paris.
Dorazio, along with artists Mino Perilli and Guerrini, helped found L'Age d'Or in 1950. It was a bookstore/gallery space dedicated to abstract art. In 1952, he promoted the foundation Origin with Alberto Burri, Ettore Colla and others, and edited the magazine Arti Visive. As a representative of Italy, in 1953 he traveled for the first time to the United States to participate in the International Summer Seminar at Harvard University. That fall, he moved to New York City and stayed through 1954. In October 1953, Dorazio had his first solo exhibition at George Wittenborn's One-Wall Gallery.
He published La Fantasia Dell-Arte Nella Vita Moderna" in 1955, a review of modern art in Italy. Regarding this book, reviewer Christopher Masters states that Dorazio advanced his belief, perhaps with a surfeit of optimism, that "abstract art could change the world... That just as science and technology were destroying the barriers between different cultures, so the new 'universal style' would lead to a 'universal civilisation'."
He was invited to teach at the Graduate School of Fine Arts program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in 1959. He taught painting there for one semester each year from 1960 to 1969, splitting his time between the United States and Italy. In 1970 he returned to live and work full-time in Rome. In 1974 he moved his studio from Rome to Umbria, near Todi. Peter Iden, founding director of the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt from 1978-1987, acquired three works by Dorazio from 1981 to 1983 (Oracolo, 1959; Blue Hearttrap, 1961; Stridente, 1982-83) for the museum collection.| Average Sold Price |
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Untitled Mid Century Modern Geometric Abstraction Lithograph Signed/N, Ex-Museum
By Piero Dorazio
Located in New York, NY
Piero Dorazio
Untitled Mid Century Modern Geometric Abstraction, 1967
Color Lithograph on Rives BFK wove paper
Hand signed, numbered 68/80 and dated on the front
29 1/4 × 21 inches
U...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Piero Dorazio
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Lithograph
Italian Abstract Work on Paper Color Field Non-Objective European Mid-Century
By Piero Dorazio
Located in New York, NY
Italian Modern Abstract Work on Paper Color Field Non-Objective European Mid-Century - "Gonage"
Dorazio completed "Gonage" in 1949 when just after the artist had been awarded a stipend by the French government and admission to the Academy Beaux Arts. There he met George Braque who became great friends but also an influence on Dorazio, of which "Gonage" is a living testament.
"Gonage" actual size of the drawing measures 12 x 9 1/2 inches. It is signed on the lower right. The work is affixed to a 19 x 15 inch board which includes the artist's signature and date. There is a torn table on the lower left entitling the piece "Gonage".
Provenance follows this piece as a gift in 1950 to the artist-colleague Luigi Lucioni, who then gifted it in 1955 to his friend, the uncle of the current owner who has owned the work since 1988.
Bio
Born in Italy, Piero Dorazio studied architecture in Rome. At the same time his first abstract works were executed. In 1947 he received a scholarship from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he contacted Modern artists, who lived in Paris. He founded the galleries "Age d'Or" in Florence and Rome to represent avant-garde arts in Italy.
During a one year stay in the USA he got acquainted with leading artists of Abstract Expressionism such as Marc Rothko...
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1940s Abstract Piero Dorazio
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Gouache, Board
Oval - Etching by Piero Dorazio - 1987
By Piero Dorazio
Located in Roma, IT
Oval is a color etching and aquatint on paper, realized in 1987 by the Italian graphic master Piero Dorazio (Rome, 1927 - Perugia, 2005).
Signed and dated in pencil " Piero Dorazio ...
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1980s Abstract Piero Dorazio
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Etching, Aquatint
Untitled
By Piero Dorazio
Located in Summit, NJ
Gorgeous aquatint in reds and oranges by Piero Dorazio (Italian 1927-2005). This aquatint is on heavy "Umbria" Fabriano paper. It is signed and dated 1964 in the lower margin in penc...
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1960s Abstract Piero Dorazio
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Aquatint
Erker-Treffen 2
By Piero Dorazio
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1974
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 152/200
Publisher : Erker (St. Gallen)
Leaflet
Poem "Venedig im regen" and signature of Peter Huchel lithographed on ...
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1970s Abstract Piero Dorazio
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Lithograph
Homage to Hans Arp
By Piero Dorazio
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1967
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 56/100
Publisher : Galerie Im Erker St. Gallen
22.50 cm. x 17.50 cm. 8.86 in. x 6.89 in. (paper)
22.50 cm. x 17.50...
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1960s Abstract Piero Dorazio
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Lithograph
Abstract Composition (Ex-Bank of New York Collection) Lithograph SIgned/N Framed
By Piero Dorazio
Located in New York, NY
Piero Dorazio
Abstract Composition (Bank of New York Corporate Collection), 1971
Lithograph on wove paper
Pencil signed, numbered 73/75 and dated on the front. The back bears a label from Bank of New York's Corporate Art collection.
Frame Included
This is an exquisite, uncommon abstract lithograph from the early 1970s by Piero Dorazio. It was acquired from the Bank of New York Corporate Art Collection, and bears their inventory label on the back of the frame. It is framed in an elegant museum frame, with UV plexiglass, bearing the date of the framing (2008), and the name of the Manhattan frame...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Piero Dorazio
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Lithograph
H 24 in W 20.5 in D 1.5 in
Nuances - Etching by Piero Dorazio - 1980
By Piero Dorazio
Located in Roma, IT
Nuances is a color etching and aquatint on paper, realized in 1980 by the Italian graphic master Piero Dorazio (Rome, 1927 - Perugia, 2005).
Signed and dated in pencil " Piero Doraz...
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1980s Abstract Piero Dorazio
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Etching
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