Antonio Saura: Galleria Dell'Ariete No. 72, 1961

Catalog for an exhibition of works by Antonio Saura held at Milan’s esteemed Galleria Dell’Ariete in March, 1961. Text by Juan-Eduardo Cirlot. 8vo, 8 unnumbered pages and four b/w lithographic leaves of plates (including one double page fold-out). Biographical note and checklist of works. Galleria Dell’Ariete was founded in 1955 by Beatrice Monti Della Corte with a mission to raise awareness of contemporary art in Italy. Its program included American abstract artists Jasper Johns, Adolph Gottlieb, and Jackson Pollock; Italian modernists Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti; and cutting-edge Arte Povera artists Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gilberto Zoria. Light bumping and soiling to extremities.