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Untitled from The New Realists (Les Nouveaux réalistes)
1973 · Photolithograph
Museum of Modern Art
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Mimmo Rotella
1918–2006
WA-00009313
Catanzaro, Italy
PaintingNouveau Realisme
Representation
None documented
1
Institutional Exhibitions
6
Works in Collection
22
Assets Indexed
15
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
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Authority Records (2)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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The Art of Assemblage
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1961
Field Verification (7 fields)
6 cross-verified · 1 single-source
- Primary mediumWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
- Birth yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
- Death yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
- DeceasedWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
- BiographyWikipedia + Unknown· 88%✓
- LocationArtsy + Gallery· 85%✓
- NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%
Source Registry (6)
- GladstoneTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- Phillips-ArtsyTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- SothebysTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- Hauser-WirthTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
- GalleryTier 3 · Scraped/inferred60%
About
Why this artist matters now
Mimmo Rotella worked primarily in décollage, stripping and layering torn advertising posters to expose the material history embedded in commercial imagery. Operating in post-war Italy, he developed a practice built around the physical destruction and reassembly of found street posters, transforming mass-media surfaces into densely textured, fragmentary compositions. He was associated with the Ultra-Lettrists and later joined the Nouveau Réalisme movement, founded in 1960 by critic Pierre Restany, which positioned his method within a broader European engagement with consumer culture and the urban environment. His psychogeographic works extended this practice into conceptual territory shaped by the city as subject.
Source: Gladstone · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago
Graph relationships
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Movement
Nouveau Realisme
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
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Institutional
Museum Collections
Canonical record
Artworks (6)
Artwork sources (3)
6 published of 11 catalogued · 6 with image
- MoMA4 publishedof 9 catalogued5 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
- Tate1 published1 img
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 2)
2 entries · 1 sources
- 1968 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1962 · Tate · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Record
Images
Relationships
7Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Tate
Market
Auction sale history
Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction
Market
Auction History
| Work | Auction House | Date | Estimate | Hammer Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artsy | Oct 2025 | €18,000 – €22,000 | Unsold | |
| Artsy | Oct 2025 | €25,000 – €30,000 | Unsold |
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