Finding aid for the Galleria dell'Ariete records, 1955-1993 990058
Alan Tomlinson and Annette Leddy
Special Collections
2012
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Los Angeles 90049-1688
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: Galleria dell'Ariete records
Creator:
Francis, Sam, 1923-1994
Creator:
Castelli, Leo
Creator:
Galleria dell'Ariete
Creator:
Mulas, Ugo
Creator:
Namuth, Hans
Creator:
Sonnabend, Ileana
Creator:
Takahashi, Shū
Creator:
Appel, Karel, 1921-2006
Creator:
Cisventi, Carlo
Creator:
King, Phillip, 1934-
Creator:
Tàpies, Antoni, 1923-2012
Creator:
Arakawa, Shūsaku, 1936-2010
Creator:
Betty Parsons Gallery
Creator:
Sutherland, Graham Vivian, 1903-1980
Creator:
Leo Castelli Gallery
Creator:
Kasmin Limited
Creator:
Scordia, Antonio
Creator:
Parsons, Betty
Creator:
Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011
Creator:
Monti della Corte von Rezzori, Beatrice
Creator:
Saura, Antonio, 1930-1998
Identifier/Call Number: 990058
Physical Description:
46.43 Linear Feet
(88 boxes; 2 flatfile folders)
Date (inclusive): 1955-1993
Abstract: The complete business records of the Galleria dell'Ariete of Milan, Italy, from 1955, when it opened, through its closing
in the mid-1980s. It was among the most important galleries in Italy for contemporary art, and had extensive connections with
dealers, collectors, artists, and critics in Europe, the United States, and Japan. The archive documents these connections
through correspondence, business and financial papers, catalogs, press clippings, and an extensive photographic record.
Physical Location: Request access to the physical materials described in this inventory through the
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Language of Material: Collection material is primarily in Italian and English.
Preferred Citation
Galleria dell'Ariete records, 1955-1993, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 990058
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa990058
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Acquisition Information
Acquired from Beatrice Monti della Corte von Rezzori in 1999.
Processing History
Alan Tomlinson processed the collection and wrote the preliminary inventory, which was encoded by Laura Schroffel in 2008.
Annette Leddy further processed the collection and revised the finding aid in 2012. Correspondence may be further processed
at a future time.
Biographical/Historical note
Beatrice Monti della Corte opened the Galleria dell'Ariete at Via San Andrea, 5, Milan, Italy in 1955, when she was twenty-five
years old, principally as a showplace for modern art—her first major exhibition at the gallery was of lithographs and engravings
by Picasso—though the formal statutes of the company state that its object is 'il commercio in generale di opere d'arte antiche
e moderne'. Thus Monti della Corte regularly exhibited and dealt in such items as 17th to 19th century Indian miniature paintings,
Afghan kilims and dhurries, 19th century American patchwork quilts, and 18th and 19th century Italian folk paintings on glass.
A 1958 exhibition,
Tauromachia, brought together engravings of bullfighting subjects by Goya and Picasso.
However, the main focus was on the work of living artists, and the Galleria dell'Ariete rapidly became one of the foremost
Italian galleries for contemporary art, forming close connections with such like-minded establishments as the galleries of
Kasmin and Waddington in London, and Leo Castelli, Ileana Sonnabend, and Betty Parsons in New York. Monti della Corte had
a special interest in introducing modern—especially new, young—Italian artists to American collectors, through her contacts
with American dealers, and in promoting modern American artists in Italy, through her own gallery. Artists such as Cy Twombly,
Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns amongst the Americans, and Andrea Cascella, Enrico Castellani, and Luigi Parzini amongst
Italians were particular enthusiasms of hers, as was the Spaniard Antoni Tápies, and she kept in personal contact with some
of them even after she had finally closed the gallery. She was also amongst the first to exhibit the work of the English artists
Francis Bacon and David Hockney in Italy, and, as her business became established, she started to bring modern Asian art,
especially Japanese, within its range.
In 1970 Monti della Corte opened a new section of the Galleria dell'Ariete, at the same Via San Andrea address, under the
name Ariete Grafica. It was dedicated to drawings, lithographs, engravings, prints, and editions of small sculptures, leaving
the main gallery free to concentrate on paintings and large sculptures. Ariete Grafica itself published editions of works
in various media by a number of artists. A list from 1980 has twenty-one names of "artisti delle nostri edizioni"; amongst
them, Andrea Cascella, Diego Esposito, Barry Flanagan, Nancy Martin, Luigi Parzini, and Shu Takahashi, and including a serial
work by Alan Shields in the form of hand-painted, beaded crochet panels.
Monti della Corte closed Galleria dell'Ariete as an exhibition space on November 30, 1979, though she maintained an office
at Via San Andrea, and from it carried on dealing in paintings and sculpture under the gallery's name for a few more years.
The records contain papers related to these transactions dated up to 1983. Ariete Grafica remained open at the same address,
and exhibitions were held and business conducted there into the mid-1980s, by which time the gallery was handling paintings
and sculptures as well as graphic arts. As late as 1993 Monti della Corte was using the Via San Andrea address to deal with
paperwork connected to her loans of artworks from her personal collection for exhibitions at museums and other galleries,
but her own galleries were, by then, closed. Monti della Corte married the novelist Baron Gregor von Rezzori in the 1960s.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Galleria dell'Ariete records contain all of the surviving business papers of the gallery from its foundation by Beatrice
Monti della Corte in 1955 to its closure in 1979, plus papers connected with her continued activities under the Galleria's
name during the following few years. Also included are the business records of the Galleria's offshoot, Ariete Grafica, from
its opening in 1970 to the mid-1980s. These records comprise correspondence (letters received and copies of letters sent)
with dealers, collectors, and artists in many countries; miscellaneous business papers, including accounts and stock cards,
which give extensive information on the acquisition, sale, and movement of works of art; and business diaries and minute books,
the earliest of which include the articles of association and the statutes of the Galleria. The correspondence is arranged
by region (Europe, the United States, and Asia), and then chronologically.
These materials are supplemented by an extensive file of press clippings, collecting items about specific exhibitions at the
Galleria, items about artists and others associated with it, and some items of general interest about art and culture. There
is a complete run of catalogs for the Galleria's exhibitions from 1955-1979, with related ephemera, and a collection of pages
of signatures from visitors' books put out for some of the exhibitions. A comprehensive photographic archive documents works
of art and exhibitions, and includes photographs of artists and other individuals, and of gallery activities. Photographers
include Carlo Cisventi, Ugo Mulas, Hans Namuth, and Vicenzo, among others.
Arrangement note
Arranged in four series:
Series I: Correspondence, 1955-1983;
Series II: Photographic documentation, 1955-1979, undated;
Series III: Business records, 1955-1993, undated;
Series IV: Clippings, catalogs, other publications, 1955-1977, undated.
Publication Rights
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Black-and-white photographs
Carbon copies
Color photographs
Contact sheets
Inventories
Invoices
Art, Italian -- 20th century
Art dealers -- United States
Collectors and collecting
Transparencies
Clippings files
Art, Asian
Art, American -- 20th century
Art dealers -- Italy -- 20th century
Photocopies
Notebooks
Scrapbooks
Appel, Karel, 1921-2006
Francis, Sam, 1923-1994
Castelli, Leo
Monti della Corte von Rezzori, Beatrice
Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011
Takahashi, Shū
Arakawa, Shūsaku, 1936-2010
Betty Parsons Gallery
Ariete Grafica
Scordia, Antonio
King, Phillip, 1934-
Kasmin Limited
Leo Castelli Gallery
Sutherland, Graham Vivian, 1903-1980
Saura, Antonio, 1930-1998
Correspondence, Series I.
1955-1983
Physical Description:
17.09 Linear Feet
(41 boxes)
Arrangement
The files are organized in a variation of the way they were received from the gallery: first by region, then by decade, and
then in alphabetical order by the names of the persons or organizations involved. Note that this latter category was rather
idiosyncratically applied by the gallery. If an entity does not appear under the correspondent's last name, it may be searchable
by the name of the pertinent corporate entity, or by the last name of the subject of the correspondence, such as an artist.
Correspondence regarding a gallery that comprises a dealer's name is filed by the dealer's last name, e.g., Betty Parsons
Gallery is filed under "P". Correspondence with shippers and insurance companies are mixed in with that of artists, collectors,
critics and editors of art magazines. Selected names are listed under each date range.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence between Galleria dell'Ariete and artists, dealers, galleries, museums, collectors, and critics in Europe, the
United States, and Japan between 1955 and 1983, including letters received, and copies of letters sent. Among the highlights
of this correspondence is the witty, eloquent, exchange between Monti della Corte and her friend and colleague New York art
dealer Leo Castelli. With the shared objective of raising the profile of American artists in Italy and Italian artists in
America, the two exchange strategic letters and telegrams about collectors, artists, and other dealers, chronicling the flow
of paintings back and forth across the Atlantic. Other American colleagues who appear in the correspondence are Betty Parsons,
Paula Cooper, and Martha Jackson. During her periods in New York, Monti della Corte wrote almost daily to gallery staff about
meetings with artists, and they sent news of developments in the Gallery. These letters too are full of information about
the developing market for American art in Europe and the collectors, like Giuseppe Panza, or Joseph Pulizer, who were to create
a lasting legacy in collections that would ultimately find their way into contemporary art museums.
Europe, Series I.A.
1955-1979
Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of the correspondent or by the corporate name. Within each grouping are three
date ranges, with some slight variations: 1955-1959, 1960-1969, and 1970-1979.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with dealers, curators, artists, collectors and gallery staff.
box 1, folder 1
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including letters to and from Karl Appel.
box 1, folder 2-9
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Marianne Adelmann, Bruno Alfieri, Karel Appel, Lord Ashcombe, Gillian Ayres, and Carla Accardi.
box 1, box 2
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Inge Asembaum, Francisca Amadio, Arman, and Carlo Alfano.
box 3, folder 1
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including Galerie Benador.
box 3, folder 2-8
1960-1968
Scope and Contents
Including Giorgio Bompadre, David Bright, Rene Robert Bouche, Biennale di Venezia, Mary Bauermeister, Aldo Ballo, and Jagoda
Buic.
box 3, box 4
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Emilio Bertonati, Suzanne Bollag, Byron Gallery, Galleria Bologna, Stephen Buckley, and Alighiero Boetti.
box 4, folder 9
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including Leo Castelli, Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, and Enrico Crispolti.
box 4, folder 10-17
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Leo Castelli, Chio, Pietro Consagra, William Clow, Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, and Enrico Crispolti.
box 5, folder 1-17
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Pietro Consagra, Christo, Andrea Cascella, Tony Caro, and Enrico Castellani.
box 6, folder 1
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including Jacques Dubourg, and Melton Davis.
box 6, folder 10-24
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Pietro Dorazio, Andrea Dotti, and Massimo de Simone.
box 7, folder 1
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including Galerie Editions du Dragon.
box 7, folder 2-4
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Eric Estorick, and James Elliott.
box 7, folder 5-12
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Elsa Emmy, Diego Esposito, Galleria E., Michael Enneper, and Marilu Eustachio.
box 7, folder 13
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including Giorgio Franchetti.
box 7, folder 14-20
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Pericle Fazzini, Nino Franchina, Sam Francis, Giorgio Franchietti, James Fitzsimmons, Frasnedi, Lucio Fontana, and
Helen Frankenthaler.
box 7, folder 21-30
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Sigeo Fukuda, Federico Forquet, Barry Flanagan, Ruth Francken, Lucio Fontana, Suzanne Fischer, and Sandra Furlotti.
box 8, folder 1
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including Peter Gimpel and Galatea Gallery.
box 8, folder 2-12
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Clement Greenberg, Philip Gersh, Lorenzo Guerini, Adolph Gottlieb, Mrs. David Gibbs, Charles Gimpel, Nicholas Guppy,
and Gerard Gallet.
box 8, box 9
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Vittorio Gassmann, Gimpel Fils, Hubert de Givenchy, Nicholas Guppy, Ginevra Grigolo, Nigel Greenwood, and Marion
Goodman.
box 10, folder 1
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including John Hultberg, and Michael Hertz.
box 10, folder 2-4
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Alfred Hecht, Eile Hinltunen, Hanover Gallery, Brower Hatcher, and George Heinrichs.
box 10, folder 5-13
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including John Hoyland, Nicolas Helion, Eile Hinltunen, and Tatiana Hessen.
box 10, folder 14-15
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Herman Igell.
box 10, folder 16-23
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including IBM, Galerie de l'Ile de France, and Il Chiodo.
box 10, folder 24
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including H. De Jong, and Martha Jackson.
box 10, folder 25
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Pierre Janlet, and Martha Jackson.
box 10, folder 26-30
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including David Juda, Ritzi Jacobi, Ierre Janlet, and Bernard Jacobson.
box 11, folder 1
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including Kunsthalle Bern.
box 11, folder 2-7
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Suat Kutat, Kasmin Limited, and Udo Kulterman.
box 11, folder 9-20
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Utal Kukels, Phillip King, Dieter Koppelin, Max Konig, Maria Kroll, Kasmin Limited, and Knoedler Gallery.
box 12, folder 1
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including Edward Loeb, Charles Lienhard, and John Latham.
box 12, folder 2-8, 20
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Felix Landau, Karin Van Leyden, Leong, Alex Lieberman, and Leo Lionni. Also filed under "L" are friends from the
island Lindos, including Tsambico Kricis, John and Polly Hope, William Clow, Carston Hoff, and Lily Parker.
box 12, folder 9-19, 21
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Jacques Lassaigne, Galerie Lowenadler, Longanesi & Co., and Yvon Lambert.
box 13, folder 1
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including Gino Marotta, Mario Maccari, Mirko, and the Museum of Modern Art.
box 13, folder 2-11
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Flavia Manzi-Fe, Noretta Malaguzzi, McRoberts & Tunnard, Ltd., Gino Marotta, Marlborough Gallery, Carlo Monzino,
Minami Gallery, Galerie Muller, and Galerie Maeght.
box 13, box 14
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Filiberto Menna, Hans Meyer, Jans Muller, Galerie Maeght, Galerie m., Giorgio Marconi, Maurizio Mochetti, Luigi
Magnani, Pio Monti, and Fausto Melotti.
box 15, folder 1
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including Gastone Novelli.
box 15, folder 2-10
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including C.B. Negley, Jorge Newberry, New London Gallery, Mario Migro, Luciano Nuvolari, Albert Niels, and Galleria Nazionale
d'Arte Moderna.
box 15, folder 11-19
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Galleria Notizie, Mario Migro, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, and Nigel Greenwood.
box 15, folder 20
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including l'Obelisco Galleria d'Arte, and Marcelle Oury.
box 15, folder 21-23
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Masao Oshita, Ginnie Ogilvy, Svend Oppendhejm, and l'Obelisco Galleria.
box 15, folder 24-29
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including l'Obelisco Galleria, and Antonini ___?
box 16, folder 1
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including Oscar Piatella, and Guglielmo Piccoli.
box 16, folder 2-10
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Joe Pulitzer, Giuseppe Panza, Raymond Parker, Betty Parsons, Oscar Piatella, Luigi Parzini, Otto Piene, Michelangelo
Pistoletto, Luca Patella, Gio Pomodoro, Hans Prinz, and Pino Poggi.
box 17, folder 1-14
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Gio Pomodoro, Oscar Piatella, Betty Parsons, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Carlo Ponti, and Nicolo Perusino.
box 17, folder 15
1960-1965
Scope and Contents
Including Galleria Quadrante.
box 17, folder 16
1970-1975
Scope and Contents
Including Quadriennale.
box 18, folder 1
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including Toni del Renzio, Larry Rubin, and Galerie Rive Droit.
box 18, folder 2-10
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Larry Rubin, Rome-New York Art Foundation, Carlo Ramos, Herbert Read, and Mario Ratti.
box 19, folder 1-14
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Rowan Gallery, Vera Russel, and Carlos Rangel.
box 20, folder 1
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including Antonio Saura, Emil Schumacher, and Galerie Stadler.
box 20, folder 2-10
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Graham Sutherland, Ralph Sassoon, Antonio Saura, Armando Scamperle, Stendahl Galleries, Renna Saverio, Antonio Scordia,
Ileana Sonnabend, Serge Sursock, Hassel Smith, Galerie Alfred Schmela, and Richard Smith.
box 20, box 21
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including John Stefanidis, Andrea Serafini, Alan Shields, Bob Schulz, Richard Smith, Alfred Schmela, and Sotheby & Co.
box 22, folder 1
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including Antonio Tapies.
box 22, folder 2-9
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Orfeo Tamburi, Tancredi, Antonio Tapies, Arthur Tooth & Sons, and Shu Takahashi.
box 22, folder 10-16
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Antonio Tapies, Cy Twombley, Shu Takahashi, and Mark Tobey.
box 23, folder 1
1955-1959
Scope and Contents
Including Rudolph Zwirner.
box 23, folder 2-10
1960-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Alice Urfer, Glenn Wessels, William Zinsser, Waddington Galleries, Alberto Ulrich, Marcello Venturoli, Marisa Volpi,
Claudio Verna, and Cynthia Young.
box 23, box 24
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Alberto Ulrich, Waddington Galleries, Annemarie Verna, and Thomas Wright.
Europe and America: A-Z, Series I.B.
1978-1983
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with dealers, curators, collectors, artists, and gallery staff.
Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of the correspondent or by the corporate name.
box 25, folder 1-11
A-K
Scope and Contents
Including Karel Appel, Jaafar Abdul-Azem, Rashid Amin, Charles Byron, Peter Blum, Paula Cooper, Leo Castelli, DIA Art Foundation,
Andre Emmerich Gallery, Ronald Greenberg, James Goodman, and Sydney Janis Gallery.
box 25, folder 12-19
L-Z
Scope and Contents
Including Alexander Lieberman Gallery, Vera Munro, Pierre Matisse, Museum of Modern Art, Michael Thomas, Shu Takahishi, and
Vigo-Sternberg Galleries.
America, Series I.C.
1961-1979
Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of the correspondent or by the corporate name. Within each alphabetical grouping
are two date ranges that occasionally vary slightly: 1961-1969 and 1970-1979.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with dealers, artists, collectors, curators, and gallery staff.
box 26, folder 1-7
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including many letters between Beatrice and the staff of the Galleria dell'Ariete, Marilea Solbiati, Marina ___?, Paolo___?,
Renata___?, (note that these letters also are occasionally filed under the name of the artist discussed),
Art in America, Lawrence Alloway, Ignacio Acquarone, S. Arakawa, and Art Dealers Association of America.
box 26, folder 8-14
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Richard Artschwager, Pierre Apraxine, and Albright-Knox Gallery, and correspondence with Beatrice Monte's staff
at the Galleria dell-Ariete, including Giuliana Giudici.
box 27, folder 1-9
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including David Bright, Charles Byron, Dick Bellamy, Charles E. Buckley, Paul Bianchini, Esther Bear, and David Burke.
box 27, folder 10-17
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Charles Byron, John Berggruen, Brooks Barron, Bill Bass, and Lynda Benglis.
box 28, folder 1-12
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including a great deal of correspondence with Leo Castelli, and a small amount with Ronald Clyne, and Andrew Crispo.
box 28, folder 13-20
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Douglas Campbell, Paula Cooper, Leo Castelli, and Croquis Gallery.
box 28, folder 21-28
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Jim Dine, Donald Droll, Dwan Gallery, and Harold Diamond.
box 28, folder 29-36
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Walter De Maria, and Harold Diamond.
box 29, folder 1-9
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Jim Elliott, Andre Emmerich Gallery, and Craig Ellwood.
box 29, folder 10-16
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including James Elliott, Robert Elkon, and Andre Emmerich.
box 29, folder 17-24
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Francis, Louis Frankel, Fischbach Gallery, Shigeo Fukuda, and Richard Feigen Gallery.
box 29, folder 25-31
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Fogg Art Museum, Richard Feigen, Helen Frankenthaler, and Sam Francis.
box 30, folder 1-8
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Phil Gottlieb, Allan Guiberson, and Guggenheim Museum.
box 30, folder 9-17
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including James Goodman, Graphics International, Guggenheim Museum, and Ronald Greenberg.
box 30, folder 18-26
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Joseph Hirshhorn, and Holland Gallery.
box 30, folder 27-33
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Hudson Gallery, Joseph Hirshhorn, and correspondence from Haiti.
box 31, folder 1-4
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Robert Indiana.
box 31, folder 5-10
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Galerie Issa, Institute of Contemporary Art, and Robert Indiana.
box 31, folder 11-17
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Martha Jackson, and Sidney Janis.
box 31, folder 18-24
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Martha Jackson, Sidney Janis, and Jiyugaoka Gallery.
box 31, folder 25-31
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Samuel Kootz, and Joseph Kelleker.
box 31, folder 32-39
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Kornblee Gallery, Knoedler & Co., and Knoedler Contemporary Art.
box 31, folder 40-46
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Joe Lambert, Alexander Lieberman, and Felix Landau.
box 32, folder 1-7
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Felix Landau, Evelyn Lambert, and Mrs. Kenneth Lane.
box 32, folder 8-15
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Victor Miller, Flavia Manzi-Fe, Francesca Meucci, Museum of Modern Art, Pierre Matisse, Arnold Maremont, Helen Franthenthal
Motherwell, R. Menkes, Robert Motherwell, Morris Moscowitz, and James Meeker.
box 32, folder 16-23
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including James Meeker, Richard Merkin, Museum of Modern Art, Ed Moses, and Brice Marden.
box 32, folder 24-29
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Constantino Nivola, Jorge Newbery, Morton Neumann, and Mrs. Raymond Nasher.
box 32, folder 30-35
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Kenneth Noland, Cy Newhouse, and Hans Neumann.
box 33, folder 1-2
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Charles Offin and Mrs. Kenneth Dale Owen.
box 33, folder 3-5
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Mrs. Jane Owen, Pat Oldenburg, Obelisk Gallery, and Jules Olitski.
board 33, folder 6-13
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Betty Parsons, Joseph Pulitzer, Carla Panicali, and Fred Picard.
box 33, folder 14-21
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Betty Parsons, Joseph Pulitzer, Lucio Pozzi, Pace Gallery, and PB Eighty-Four.
box 34, folder 1-2
Q
1972-1974
Scope and Contents
Including Quilt Gallery.
box 34, folder 3-9
1962-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Larry Rivers, Walter Ross, Robert Rowan, Lawrence Rubin, and Galleria Roma.
box 34, box 35
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Larry Rubin, William Rubin, Mario Ravagnan, and George Rosenfeld.
box 35, folder 8
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Harry Sherwood, Stendahl Galleries, Sidney Schoenberg, Antonio Souza, David Smith,Taft Schreiber, Milton Stuart,
William Seitz, Harry Sherwood, Alan Solomon, and Saidenberg Gallery.
box 35, folder 9-15
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Courtney Sale, and Alan Shields.
box 36, folder 1-5
1962-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Thibaut Gallery, Stanley Tigerman, Jock Truman, Yoshiaki Tono, and Tokyo Gallery.
box 36, folder 6-11
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Yoshiaki Tono, Ricardo Tomacelli, and Tokyo Gallery.
box 37, folder 1-6
1961-1969
Scope and Contents
Including Frederick Weisman, Jack Youngerman, Howard Wise, William Weintraub, Manuel Ulloa, and Walker Art Center.
box 37, folder 7-14
1970-1979
Scope and Contents
Including Samuel Wagstaff, Jane Wade, Alberto Ulrich, Bill Weber, Nicholas Wilder, and John Weber Gallery.
America and Asia: A-Z, Series I.D.
1970-1976
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with artists, curators, publishers, dealers, and gallery staff.
Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of the correspondent or by the corporate name. Grouped by the gallery in two
date ranges, 1970-1973 and 1974-1976.
box 38, folder 1-12
1970-1973
Scope and Contents
Including Brooke Alexander, Harry Abrams, Inc., Paul Bianchini, Paula Cooper, Castelli Graphics, Ronald Feldman, Gemini G.E.L.,
Robert Goodnough, Leonard Kornblee, Landfall Press, Parke-Bernet, Larry Rubin, and Alan Shields.
1974-1976
Scope and Contents
Including
Artforum, Charles Byron, Myron Buchman, Leo Castelli, Paula Cooper, James Elliott, Sam Francis, Guggenheim Museum, Graphics International
Ltd., Sidney Janis, Martha Jackson, Stephen Mazoh, Minami Gallery, Betty Parsons, and John Weber Gallery.
Europe and Asia:A-Z, Series I.E.
1965-1966
Scope and Contents
Including correspondence with dealers, curators, artists, and collectors.
Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of the correspondent or by the corporate name.
box 39, folder 1-10
A-K
Scope and Contents
Including Siegfried Adler, Biennale di Venezia, Pietro consagra, Piero Dorazio, Robert Fraser, Keitaro Ikuo, Phillip King,
and Kasmin Limited.
box 39, folder 11-19
L-Z
Scope and Contents
Including John Lucas, People in Lindos, Ennio Morlotti, l'Obelisco, Mario Radice, Kusuk Shimizu, and Mario Tarello.
Galleria dell'Ariete Grafica, Via S. Andrea, 5, A-Z, Series I.F.
1970-1971
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence regarding the Ariete Gallery that dealt in prints and multiples.
Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of the correspondent or the name of the corporate entity.
box 40, folder 1-8
A-K
Scope and Contents
Including letters to and/or from Contessa R. Archinto, Lorenzo Capellini, Piero Dorazio, Galleria Galatea,Anne Marei Hunermann,
and Bernard Jacobson.
box 40, folder 9-17
L-Z
Scope and Contents
Including Studio Mulas, Petersburg Press, Mark Tobey, Salvatore Viaggio, and Waddington Galleries.
Basel, Switzerland, Art Fair, Series I.G.
1973-1975
Scope and Contents note
Items relating to Galleria dell'Ariete's participation in 1973-1975 Art Fairs. Includes documentation of expenses, maps of
the exhibitions, photographs of the gallery's installation, and miscellaneous papers.
Arrangement
Arranged in chronological order.
Expenses and inventories, Series I.H.
1955-1965
Scope and Contents note
Assorted inventories of expenses found separate from those within each subseries.
Arrangement
Arrangement in chronological order.
Photographic documentation, Series II.
1955-1979, undated
Physical Description:
8.88 Linear Feet
(24 boxes)
Arrangement
Arranged in three subseries, each in alphabetical order by the artists' last names. The first subseries contains photography
of all the work by artists associated with the gallery, however briefly; the second subseries includes photography of exhibitions
held in the gallery, and often also contains the exhibition brochure; the third subseries concerns various fairs and biennials.
Negatives, color transparencies, and color photographs are housed separately from the black-and-white photographs, and are
arranged in alphabetical order by the artists' last names.
Scope and Contents note
Series comprises photographs, negatives, transparencies, and miscellaneous related printed materials depicting artwork, artists,
and exhibitions at Galleria Ariete, Rowan Gallery, art fairs, and elsewhere. The general files (Subseries II.A.) create a
visual picture of 1960s international art at a point in time when that world still had many national barriers and when the
collective aesthetic was poised between Abstract Expressionism, Pop, and Minimalism. Subseries II.B. focuses on the works
exhibited by the Galleria's stable of artists, some of whom are captured in studio shots. Subseries II.C. contains many intriguing
and beautifully shot portraits of the artists and of Beatrice del Monte, some by well-known photographers such as Ugo Mulas
or Hans Namuth. Among the highlights are photographs of Monti della Corte with Leo Castelli and their two prize winning artists
at the Venice Biennale of 1964: Robert Rauschenberg won the prize for best foreign artist, and Andrea Cascella won for best
Italian artist
Artwork, Series II.A.
1955-1979, undated
Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order by the artists' last names. Note that a given artist may have photographic documentation in
various formats, including slides, transparencies, and large format black-and-white photogtaphy.
Scope and Contents
Comprises the general photography files of the gallery, including not only artists belonging to the gallery, but also those
who occasionally showed there or who had works held on consignment there. This subseries shows the broad range of artists
from various countries in the gallery's circle, including Italian, Japanese, American, and English artists, capturing an international
view of the art world in the 1960s and '70s. The artists in this subseries also appear in Series I. Correspondence. Large
format photographs of the gallery artists and their work have been integrated into this subseries.
box 42, folder 2
Josef Albers: Photographs
box 43, folder 3
Leslie Alfred: Photographs
box 56
Negatives, slides, and transparencies
box 56
Slides and transparencies
box 42, folder 10
Richard Artschwager: Photographs
box 56
Giacomo Balla: Transparencies
box 56
Brooks Barrow: Transparencies
box 43, folder 1
Hans Bellmer: Photographs
box 43, folder 2-4
Eugene Berman: Photographs
box 43, folder 5
Valentina Bernardinone: Photographs
box 56
Umberto Boccioni: Transparencies
box 56
George Braque: Transparencies
box 43, folder 12
Fritz Bultman: Photographs
box 43, folder 13
Alberto Burri: Photographs
box 56
Transparencies and slides
box 44, folder 3
Massimo Campigli: Photographs
box 44, folder 4
Arturo Carmassi: Photographs
box 56
Slides and transparencies
box 44, folder 10
Bernard Cohen: Photographs
box 56
Slides and transparencies
box 56
Damian: Negatives and slides
box 56
Negatives, slides, transparencies, and color photo
box 56
Georg Dokoupil: Transparency
box 44, folder 21
Raou Dragomirescu: Photographs
box 44, folder 22
Raymond Duchamp-Villon: Photographs
box 57
Feininger: Color photograph
box 57
Slides, transparencies, and color photographs
box 57
Transparencies and slides
box 45, folder 7
Ruth Francken: Photographs
board 45, folder 10
Rupert Geiger: Photographs
box 45, folder 11
Alberto Giacometti: Photographs
box 45, folder 13
Michael Goldberg: Photographs
box 45, folder 14
Arshile Gorky: Photographs
box 57
Giorgio Griffa: Transparencies
box 45, folder 16
Lorenzo Guerrini: Photographs
box 57
Hilturen: Color photographs
box 57
Transparencies and slides
box 45, folder 20
Hans Hoffmann: Photographs
box 45, folder 21
Moshe Hoyland: Photographs
box 45, folder 22
John Hultberg Photographs
box 45, folder 24
Ritzi and Peter Jacobi: Photographs
box 57
Bernard Jacobson: Color photographs
box 46, folder 1
Richard Kalina: Photographs
box 46, folder 2
Wassily Kandinsky: Photographs
box 46, folder 7
Janis Kounellis: Photographs
box 57
Fernand Leger: Transparencies
box 46, folder 9
Kaspar Thomas Lenk: Photographs
box 57
Roy Lichtenstein: Transparencies
box 46, folder 10
Alexander Lieberman: Photographs
box 57
Transparencies and slides
box 46, folder 13
Renato Mambor: Photographs
box 46, folder 16
Giancarlo Marchese: Photographs
box 46, folder 18
Marino Marini: Photographs
box 58
Transparencies, slides, and negatives
box 46
André Masson: Transparencies
box 46, folder 22
Georges Mathieu: Photographs
box 58
Transparency and color photograph
box 46, folder 28
Joan Mitchell: Photographs
box 46, folder 29
Robert Morris: Photographs
box 46, folder 30
Robert Motherwell: Photographs
box 46, folder 31
Louise Nevelson: Photographs
box 46, folder 32
Barnett Newman: Photographs
box 58
Slides, transparencies, and negatives
box 58
Transparencies and slides
box 58
Gastone Novelli: Transparencies
box 58
Jules Olitski: Transparency
box 47, flatfile 2
Christian Orgeix: Photographs
box 47, folder 4
Giulio Paolini: Photographs
box 59
Slides, negatives, and transparencies
box 60
Transparencies and color photographs
box 47, folder 13
Augusto Piccoli: Photographs
box 60
Larry Poons: Transparencies
box 60
Transparencies and slides
box 47, folder 19
Ad Reinhardt: Photographs
board 60
Transparency and color photograph
box 48, folder 2
Paolo Scheggi: Photographs
box 61
Sydney Schoenberg: Color photograph
box 48, folder 3
Emil Schumacher: Photographs
box 48, folder 6
George Segal: Photographs
box 48, folder 7
Richard Serra: Photographs
box 61
Sherwood: Color photograph
box 61
Color photographs, slides, transparencies, and negatives
box 48, folder 13
Pierre Soulages: Photographs
box 61
Frank Stella: Slide, transparencies, color photographs
box 62
Slides, transparencies and negatives
box 61
Tancredi: Negatives and slides
box 61
Negatives, transparencies, slides, color photographs
box 61
Transparencies and slides
box 49, folder 1
David von Schlegell: Photographs
box 49, folder 2
Emilio Vedova: Photographs
Assorted photographic files
box 49, folder 19-10
Photographs of work by artists represented by Rowan Gallery, London
Scope and Contents note
Paul Huxley, Roger Cook, Garth Evans, Phillip King, Jeremy Moon, Jon Thompson, William Thompson, Isaac Witkin.
box 49, folder 18
Glass negative, unidentified
box 49, folder 19
Items sold: unidentified
Scope and Contents note
Photographs from file labeled Venduti.
box 49, folder 20
Photographs of artworks that passed through Galleria dell'Ariete: unidentified
Unidentified or illegible
box 63
Slides, negatives, and transparencies
box 49, folder 26
Photocopy of typed list of artworks displayed in Milan branch of Chase Manhattan Bank
box 64, box 65
Miscellaneous uncut strips of black and white negatives (53 rolls)
Exhibition files, Series II.B.
1968-1978, undated
Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order by the last names of the artists.
Scope and Contents
Files organized by the gallery, containing mostly photographs of individual works that were presumably shown in the exhibition
designated by the assigned number and date. There is some overlap between the images in these files and those in Series II.A.
Files include the occasional installation shot and portrait of the artist in his studio.
box 50, folder 1
Photocopy of typed chronological list of exhibitions at Galleria dell'Ariete,
undated
box 50, folder 2
Arman, November,
1970
Scope and Contents note
no. 160.
box 50, folder 3-4
Valentina Berardinone,
1979
box 50, folder 5
Riccardo Camoni,
1976
Scope and Contents note
no. 200
box 50, folder 6-7
Anthony Caro,
1974 November
Scope and Contents note
no. 187
box 50, folder 8
Enrico Castellani,
undated
box 50, folder 9
Pietro Consagra,
1968
Scope and Contents note
no. 146
box 50, folder 10-11
Ron Davis,
1972 November
Scope and Contents note
no. 177
box 50, folder 12
Piero Dorazio,
1975 May
Scope and Contents note
no. 191
box 50, folder 13
Radu Dragomirescu,
undated
Scope and Contents note
no. 207
box 50, folder 14
Joel Fisher,
undated
Scope and Contents note
no. 188
box 50, folder 15
Richard Francisco,
undated
Scope and Contents note
no. 188
box 50, folder 16-17
Giorgio Griffa,
1973 February
Scope and Contents note
no. 178
box 50, folder 18
John Hoyland,
1970
Scope and Contents note
no. 157
box 50, folder 19
Fausto Melotti,
undated
Scope and Contents note
no. 170
box 50, folder 20
Richard Merkin,
1971 March
Scope and Contents note
no. 164
box 51, folder 1-2
Mario Nigro,
undated
Scope and Contents note
no. 189
box 51, folder 3-4
Mimmo Paladino,
1977 May
Scope and Contents note
no. 203
box 51, folder 5-6
Luigi Parzini,
1978 April
Scope and Contents note
no. 208
box 51, folder 7
Revisione 1,
1976
Scope and Contents note
no. 193
box 51, folder 8
Dorothea Rockburne,
undated
Scope and Contents note
no. 188
box 51, folder 9
Giulio Paolini,
1971 January
Scope and Contents note
no. 162
box 51, folder 10-11
Alan Shields,
1975 April
Scope and Contents note
no. 190
box 51, folder 12-13
Mark Tobey,
1971
Scope and Contents note
no. 167
Photographs of various openings, fairs and biennals, Series II.C.
1955-circa 1977
Scope and Contents
Fascinating views of artists, curators, and gallerists at various art fairs, stylishly rendered by photographers Ugo Mulas
and Hans Namuth, among others. A highlight of this subseries are the views of Monti della Corte with Andrea Cascella and
Robert Rauschenberg at the 1964 Venice Biennale, where they shared first prize. Also included are various views of Monti della
Corte in her gallery and at art world events, elegantly dressed and quietly dramatic in interactions with artists and dealers
such as her close friend Leo Castelli.
Arrangement
Arranged first in alphabetical order by the last name of the artist whose work is portrayed, and then by the event at which
the photographs were taken.
box 52, folder 1
Photographs taken at exhibitions,
1955-1958
box 52, folder 2-3
Photographs of Beatrice Monti della Corte, and others, at Venice Biennale,
1964, 1966, 1968, undated
Scope and Contents note
Valerio Romani Adami, Andrea Cascella, Enrico Castellani, Leo Castelli, Pietro Consagra, Joseph Hirshhorn, Phillip King, Abram
Lerner, Giorgio Marconi, Ugo Mulas, Robert Rauschenberg, Gregor von Rezzori, Giuseppe Santomaso, Antonio Saura, Antoni Tàpies.
box 53, folder 1-2
Photographs of Beatrice Monti della Corte, and others mostly at exhibitions at Galleria dell'Ariete or elsewhere,
1966, 1968, undated
Scope and Contents note
Leo Castelli, Piero Dorazio, Gillo Dorfles, Lucio Fontana, Jasper Johns, Ennio Morlotti, Herbert Read, Franco Russoli, Michel
Tapié.
box 55
Portraits of Beatrice Monti della Corte,
undated
box 53, folder 3
Photographs of artists and others,
undated
Scope and Contents note
Palma Bucarelli, Alberto Burri, Pietro Consagra, Lucio Fontana, John Latham, Gino Marotta, Cesare Peverelli, Joseph Pulitzer,
Jnr., Franco Russoli, Antoni Tàpies.
box 63
Basel Art Fair: Negatives,
undated
Business records, Series III.
1955-1993, undated
Physical Description:
5.17 Linear Feet
(10 boxes)
Arrangement
Accounting books are arranged in rough chronological order by year; price lists are arranged either alphabetically by the
artists' last names, or in numerical order by exhibition number; Ariete Grafica records are arranged in alphabetical roder
by the artists' last names; guest books are arranged in chronological order by year.
Scope and Contents note
Comprises financial and administrative documents, including price lists, inventories, and guest books. These files, especially
in relation to the correspondence, give extensive information on the acquisition, sale, and movement of works of art. Business
diaries and minute books, the earliest of which include the articles of association and the statutes of the Galleria, offer
a glimpse into the gallery's daily operations. The guest books convey the gallery's distinguished and extensive list of patrons.
box 66, folder 1
Minute books,
1956-1977
Scope and Contents note
For ordinary general meetings, etc.
box 66, folder 1
1956-1968
Scope and Contents note
Also contains articles of association and statutes for Galleria dell'Ariete.
box 66, folder 2
Day-book,
1955 September 19, 1971 December 31
Scope and Contents note
Listing expenses, deposits, etc.
box 66, folder 3
Cash book
1972 June 15-1972 December 29
box 66, folder 4
Libro magazzino depositi c/terzi
1974 January 4-1975 December 5
Scope and Contents note
Summarizes transactions concerning artworks handled as proprietà di terzi, i.e., property of third parties.
box 66, folder 5
Business licences,
undated
box 66, folder 5
"Certificate of Excellence"
1974
Scope and Contents note
Awarded for design of Galleria dell'Ariete trademark.
box 66, folder 6-9
Lists of artworks with prices,
undated
Scope and Contents note
Arranged alphabetically by artists' names.
box 66, folder 6
A-I
Scope and Contents note
Carla Accardi, Franco Angeli, Karel Appel, Shusaku Arakawa, James Brown, Alexander Calder, Andrea Cascella, Enrico Castellani,
Bernard Cohen [and Harold Cohen, Robyn Denny, Richard Smith], Pietro Consagra, Jim Dine, Piero Dorazio, Jean Dubuffet, Diego
Esposito, Lucio Fontana, Helen Frankenthaler, Edoardo Giordano, Adolph Gottlieb, Francisco Goya [and Pablo Picasso], Laura
Grisi, Lorenzo Guerrini, Hsiao Chin, Giancarlo Iliprandi.
box 66, folder 7
J-O
Scope and Contents note
Peter and Ritzi Jacobi, Phillip King [and William Tucker], Leong, Alexander Liberman, Leo Lionni, Gino Marotta, Vittorio Mascalchi,
Georges Mathieu, Joan Mitchell, Jules Olitski, Christian d'Orgeix.
box 66, folder 8
P-Y
Scope and Contents note
Giulio Paolini, Parker, Luigi Parzini, Pablo Picasso [and Sam Francis], Giò Pomodoro, Lucio Pozzi, Cesare Peverelli, Robert
Rauschenberg, Salvatore Scarpitta, Alfred Schmela, Antonio Scordia, Hassel Smith, Guido Strazza, Tancredi, Antoni Tàpies,
Mark Tobey, Jack Youngerman.
box 66, folder 9
Lists with several names, no names, or indecipherable names
Prices, and other documentation, for individual exhibitions at Galleria dell'Ariete,
undated
Scope and Contents note
See list in Box 42, f. 1 above; this file covers only nos. 26-59.
box 66, folder 10
Carla Accardi
Scope and Contents note
no. 26
box 66, folder 10
Frances Degaspari
Scope and Contents note
no. 27
box 66, folder 10
Orfeo Tamburi
Scope and Contents note
no. 28
box 66, folder 11
Giancarlo Iliprandi
Scope and Contents note
no. 29
box 66, folder 11
Mario Davico
Scope and Contents note
no. 30
box 66, folder 11
Francis Bacon
Scope and Contents note
no. 31
box 66, folder 11
Tauromachia: Francisco Goya, and Pablo Picasso
Scope and Contents note
no. 32
box 66, folder 12
Albert Diato, and Giovanni Battista Valentini
Scope and Contents note
no. 33
box 66, folder 12
Luigi Parzini
Scope and Contents note
no. 34
box 66, folder 12
Esmeralda [Sbagia Ruspoli]
Scope and Contents note
no. 35
box 67, folder 1
Antoni Tàpies
Scope and Contents note
no. 36
box 67, folder 1
Francine del Pierre
Scope and Contents note
no. 37
box 67, folder 1
Reny Lohner
Scope and Contents note
no. 38
box 67, folder 1
Henri Michaux
Scope and Contents note
no. 39
box 67, folder 1
Oscar Piatella
Scope and Contents note
no. 40
box 67, folder 2
Guido Strazza
Scope and Contents note
no. 41
box 67, folder 2
James Brown
Scope and Contents note
no. 42
box 67, folder 2
Pitture popolari su vetro
Scope and Contents note
Folk pictures on glass, no number
box 67, folder 2
A. C. Maine
Scope and Contents note
no. 43
box 67, folder 2
Augusto Piccoli
Scope and Contents note
no. 44
box 67, folder 3
Emil Schumacher
Scope and Contents note
no. 45
box 67, folder 3
Cesare Peverelli
Scope and Contents note
no. 46
box 67, folder 3
Gastone Novelli
Scope and Contents note
no. 47
box 67, folder 3
Horia Damian
Scope and Contents note
no. 48
box 67, folder 3
John Hultberg
Scope and Contents note
no. 49
box 67, folder 3
Gino Marotta
Scope and Contents note
no. 50
box 67, folder 3
Tancredi
Scope and Contents note
no. 51
box 67, folder 3
Maria Lupieri
Scope and Contents note
no. 52
box 67, folder 4
Lorenzo Guerrini
Scope and Contents note
no. 53
box 67, folder 4
Luigi Parzini
Scope and Contents note
no. 54
box 67, folder 4
Antonio Carena
Scope and Contents note
no. 55
box 67, folder 4
Oceania
Scope and Contents note
no. 56. Ethnic artworks from Pacific islands.
box 67, folder 4
Franco Meneguzzo
Scope and Contents note
no. 57
box 67, folder 4
Giancarlo Sangregorio
Scope and Contents note
no. 58
box 67, folder 4
Edoardo Giordano
Scope and Contents note
no. 59
box 67, folder 5-12
Invoices for purchases and acquisitions
1955-1958
Scope and Contents note
File labeled Fatture acquisti.
box 67, folder 8
Electricity and telephone bills,
undated
box 67, folder 9
Taxes, rent, and night-watchman service,
undated
box 67, folder 10
Invoices, mostly for artworks
1957
box 67, folder 11
Invoices, mostly for artworks
1956
box 67, folder 12
Invoices, mostly for artworks
1955-1956
box 68, folder 1-5
Accounts,
1973-1977
Scope and Contents note
Mostly records of banking transactions.
Ariete Grafica business records,
1979-1993
box 68, folder 6-7
Miscellaneous papers related to loans of artworks for exhibitions,
1987-1993
Scope and Contents note
Original file labeled Varie, 1976-1984.
box 68, folder 8-10
Europe and America, A-E,
1979-1983
box 69, folder 1-7
Europe and America, F-Z,
1979-1983
box 69, folder 11
Miscellaneous items related to specific exhibitions at Ariete Grafica,
undated
Stock and sales record cards
Scope and Contents note
Cards are arranged alphabetically by artists' surnames.
box 70
Carla Accardi-Enrico Castellani
box 71
Enrico Castellani-Robert Mangold
box 72
Piero Manzoni-Oscar Piatella
box 73
Oscar Piatella-Gilberto Zorio
Guest Books,
1958, 1954-1979
Scope and Contents note
Signatures collected at exhibitions.
Clippings, catalogs, publications, Series IV.
1955-1977, undated
Physical Description:
15.29 Linear Feet
(13 boxes; 2 flatfile folders)
Arrangement
Clippings are arranged in numerical order by the exhibition number. Catalogs are arranged in chronological order by year.
Scope and Contents note
Series comprises clippings, catalogs and posters related to exhibitions at the gallery. There are also small files of postcards,
leaflets, and mock-ups of promotional material for the gallery. Of particular interest are the elegant catalogs the gallery
produced for each exhibition, and which are bound together in volumes that preserve their insightful essays, exquisite design
and photography. The clippings are also invaluable for the critical appraisal of the gallery's shows at the time they appeared,
and for biographical information they provide about some of the artists. A case in point are the files on Enrico Castellani's
involvement with the Red Brigade.
Clippings related to specific exhibitions at Galleria dell'Ariete
box 76, folder 1
Lorenzo Guerini
Scope and Contents note
no. 53
box 76, folder 2
Timo Sarpaneva
Scope and Contents note
no. 110
box 76, folder 3
Piero Dorazio
Scope and Contents note
no. 113
box 76, folder 4
Shusaku Arakawa
Scope and Contents note
no. 114
box 76, folder 5
Art of three continents
Scope and Contents note
no. 115
box 76, folder 6
Colombo Manuelli
Scope and Contents note
no. 116
box 76, folder 7
Guido Strazza
Scope and Contents note
no. 117
box 76, folder 8
David Hockney
Scope and Contents note
no. 118
box 76, folder 9
Giulio Paolini
Scope and Contents note
no. 119
box 76, folder 10
Four English artists
Scope and Contents note
no. 120
box 76, folder 11
Phillip King and William Tucker
Scope and Contents note
no. 121
box 76, folder 12
Franco Angeli
Scope and Contents note
no. 122
box 76, folder 13
Willy Muller-Britnau
Scope and Contents note
no. 123
box 76, folder 14
Leo Lionni
Scope and Contents note
no. 125
box 76, folder 15
Tancredi
Scope and Contents note
no. 126
box 76, folder 16
Luig Parzini
Scope and Contents note
no. 127
box 76, folder 17
Piero Dorazio
Scope and Contents note
no. 128
box 76, folder 18
Jannis Kounellis
Scope and Contents note
no. 129
box 76, folder 19
Pietro Consagra
Scope and Contents note
no. 130
box 76, folder 20
Piero Manzoni
Scope and Contents note
no. 131
box 76, folder 21
Barry Flanagan
Scope and Contents note
no. 140
box 76, folder 22
Shu Takahashi
Scope and Contents note
no. 141
box 76, folder 23
Vittorio Mascalchi
Scope and Contents note
no. 142
box 76, folder 24
Valentina Berardinone
Scope and Contents note
no. 143
box 76, folder 25
Franco Angeli
Scope and Contents note
no. 144
box 76, folder 26
Richard Smith
Scope and Contents note
no. 145
box 76, folder 27
Maurizio Mochetti
Scope and Contents note
no. 147
box 76, folder 28
Iginio Balderi
Scope and Contents note
no. 149
box 76, folder 29
Fausto Melotti
Scope and Contents note
no. 150
box 76, folder 30
Piero Dorazio
Scope and Contents note
no. 151
box 76, folder 31
Shigeo Fukuda
Scope and Contents note
no. 152
box 76, folder 32
Mario Nigro
Scope and Contents note
no. 153
box 76, folder 33
Renato Mambor
Scope and Contents note
no. 154
box 76, folder 34
Luigi Parzini
Scope and Contents note
no. 155
box 77, folder 1
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Scope and Contents note
no. 156
box 77, folder 2
John Hoyland
Scope and Contents note
no. 157
box 77, folder 3
Antoni Tàpies
Scope and Contents note
no. 158
box 77, folder 4
Claudio Verna
Scope and Contents note
no. 159
box 77, folder 5
Arman
Scope and Contents note
no. 160
box 77, folder 6
Twenty Caribbean painters
Scope and Contents note
no. 161
box 77, folder 7
Giulio Paolini
Scope and Contents note
no. 162
box 77, folder 8
Peter and Ritzi Jacobi
Scope and Contents note
no. 163
box 77, folder 9
Richard Merkin
Scope and Contents note
no. 164
box 77, folder 10
Pietro Consagra
Scope and Contents note
no. 165
box 77, folder 11
Lucio Pozzi
Scope and Contents note
no. 166
box 77, folder 12
Mark Tobey
Scope and Contents note
no. 167
box 77, folder 13
Giò Pomodoro
Scope and Contents note
no. 168
box 77, folder 14
Cy Twombly
Scope and Contents note
no. 169
box 77, folder 15
Fausto Melotti
Scope and Contents note
no. 170
box 77, folder 16
Indian miniature paintings
Scope and Contents note
no. 171
box 77, folder 17
Carlo Alfano
Scope and Contents note
no. 172
box 77, folder 18
Enrico Castellani
Scope and Contents note
no. 173
box 77, folder 19
Richard Smith
Scope and Contents note
no. 174
box 77, folder 20
Alan Shields
Scope and Contents note
no. 175
box 77, folder 21
Piero Dorazio
Scope and Contents note
no. 176
box 77, folder 22
Ron Davis
Scope and Contents note
no. 177
box 77, folder 23
Giorgio Griffa
Scope and Contents note
no. 178
box 77, folder 24
Chris Wilmarth
Scope and Contents note
no. 179
box 77, folder 25
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Scope and Contents note
no. 180
box 77, folder 26
Stephen Buckley
Scope and Contents note
no. 181
box 77, folder 27
Diego Esposito
Scope and Contents note
no. 182
box 77, folder 28
Luigi Parzini
Scope and Contents note
no. 183
box 77, folder 29
Fausto Melotti
Scope and Contents note
no. 184
box 77, folder 30
Franco Angeli
Scope and Contents note
no. 185
box 77, folder 31
Jules Olitski
Scope and Contents note
no. 186
box 77, folder 32
Gilberto Zorio
Scope and Contents note
no. 192
box 78, folder 1
Review Exhibition 1
Scope and Contents note
no. 193
box 78, folder 2
Photography, 1920-1930
Scope and Contents note
no. 194
box 78, folder 3
Sixteen English Artists
Scope and Contents note
no. 195
box 78, folder 4
Review Exhibition 3
Scope and Contents note
no. 197
box 78, folder 5
Maurizio Mochetti
Scope and Contents note
no. 198
box 78, folder 6
Nude and Still Life Photography, 1870-1970
Scope and Contents note
no. 199
box 78, folder 7
Riccardo Camoni
Scope and Contents note
no. 200
box 78, folder 8
Alighiero Boetti
Scope and Contents note
no. 202
box 78, folder 9
Mimmo Paladino
Scope and Contents note
no. 203
box 78, folder 10
Mimmo Rotella
Scope and Contents note
no. 204
box 78, folder 11
Germano Olivotto
Scope and Contents note
no. 206
box 78, folder 12
Radu Dragomirescu
Scope and Contents note
no. 207
box 78, folder 13
Luigi Parzini
Scope and Contents note
no. 208
box 78, folder 14
Richard Smith
Scope and Contents note
no. 209
box 78, folder 15
Indian miniatures, 1972-1973
box 78, folder 15
Exhibition of quilts, 1973
box 78, folder 16-17
Exhibitions at Ariete Grafica
box 78, folder 18
Antoni Tàpies at 1958 Venice Biennale
box 78, folder 19
Andrea Cascella at 1964 Venice Biennale
box 78, folder 20
Enrico Castellani's association with Red Brigade
box 78, folder 21
Other clippings about Enrico Castellani
box 78, folder 22
Beatrice Monti della Corte
box 78, folder 23
Florence Art Show and Market, 1964
box 78, folder 24
Franco Angeli, Andrea Cascella, Pietro Consagra, and Tancredi
box 79, folder 1-3
Miscellaneous clippings, with original envelopes describing contents
box 80*
Album of press clippings
1955-1960
box 81*
Pages from album of press clippings
oversize 82*, oversize 83*
Clippings related to specific exhibitions at Galleria dell'Ariete, and miscellaneous clippings
Scope and Contents note
See list in Box 42, f. 1 above.
Timo Sarpaneva
Physical Description:
1 items
Piero Dorazio
Physical Description:
3 items
Shusaku Arakawa
Physical Description:
1 items
Giulio Paolini
Physical Description:
1 items
Four English artists
Physical Description:
1 items
Leo Lionni
Physical Description:
2 items
Tancredi
Physical Description:
2 items
Jannis Kounellis
Physical Description:
1 items
Pietro Consagra
Physical Description:
2 items
Vittorio Mascalchi
Physical Description:
2 items
Valentina Beradinone
Physical Description:
1 items
Richard Smith
Physical Description:
4 items
Maurizio Mochetti
Physical Description:
1 items
Three English artists
Physical Description:
1 items
Iginio Balderi
Physical Description:
1 items
Fausto Melotti
Physical Description:
4 items
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Physical Description:
1 items
Antoni Tàpies
Physical Description:
5 items
Claudio Verna
Physical Description:
4 items
Arman
Physical Description:
1 items
Lucio Pozzi
Physical Description:
2 items
Indian miniature paintings
Physical Description:
1 items
Alan Shields
Physical Description:
1 items
Ron Davis
Physical Description:
1 items
Sixteen English Artists
Physical Description:
1 items
Antoni Tàpies at 1958 Venice Biennale
1958
Physical Description:
11 items
Andrea Cascella at 1964 Venice Biennale
1964
Physical Description:
28 items
Enrico Castellani's association with Red Brigade
Physical Description:
15 items
Clippings about Beatrice Monti della Corte
Physical Description:
6 items
Bound catalogs for specific exhibitions at Galleria dell'Ariete
1955-1977
Scope and Contents note
These volumes cover only nos. 1-203. A complete set of the gallery's exhibition catalogs can also be found in the Getty Research
Library's core collection.
box 86, folder 5
Individual catalogs for exhibitions nos. 204-212
box 87, folder 1
Accompanying booklet for artworks by Hamish Fulton in exhibition no. 148
box 87, folder 2
Galleria dell'Ariete postcards of artworks
box 87, folder 3
Cards and leaflets publicizing exhibitions at Galleria dell'Ariete and Ariete Grafica
box 87, folder 4
Mock-up[?] of book by Leo Lionni: Per Grazia Ricevuta
box 87, folder 5
Materials concerning project for London Sculpture Centre
1967
box 88
Mock-ups for promotional materials for exhibition at Galleria dell'Ariete
Physical Description:
2 items
flatfile 1**
Posters (including duplicates) for exhibitions at Galleria dell'Ariete
flatfile 2**
Posters for exhibitions at other galleries
Physical Description:
4 items