Painting is Made of Readymades, 1983

  • Lucio Pozzi, American, born 1935

Color offset lithograph with collage on white wove paper

  • Sheet: 27 3/8 × 19 5/8 inches (69.5 × 49.8 cm)

Gift of Jan and Ingeborg van der Marck in honor of Alan and Marianne Schwartz

F1987.51.3

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, in pencil, lower right: Pozzi

Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 6/148 Inscribed, with date of original drawing, in pencil, lower right: 76 Inscribed, in artist's hand, on plate, center: PAINTING IS MADE OF | READYMADES: HAND, BRUSH, | CANVAS, WALL, COLOR [crossed through] PIGMENTS, | COLORS DILUTED OR THICK, | DIMENSIONS, TRANSFORMATIONS, DATA, INTERFERENCES, VISIBILITY, | DISTANCE, DENSITY, STRATA, | ADDING, REMOVING, MOTIONLESSNESS, | DIRECTIONS. THEY ARE | ALL LIFTED FROM THEIR | NORMAL CONTEXT AND | COMBINED IN OBJECTS THE | AIM OF WHICH I DON'T UNDERSTAND. Inscribed, perpendicular to previous inscription: PAINTING IS | ASTONISHING. | UNDESCRIBABLE, | USELESS AND | MODEST. IT IS | LONG, HARD, I'D LIKE TO LICK IT. | 1975 | 1975

Jan and Ingeborg van der Marck

1987-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Lucio Pozzi, Painting is Made of Readymades, 1983, color offset lithograph with collage on white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Jan and Ingeborg van der Marck in honor of Alan and Marianne Schwartz, F1987.51.3.