Piero Manzoni

Comtesse Manzoni, Milan

Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris

Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt, Brazil (acquired from the above in 1970)

Freddy Battino and Luca Palazzoli, Piero Manzoni: Catalogue Raisonné, Milan 1991, no. 836, illustrated

Germano Celant, Manzoni, Catalogo Generale, vol. II, Milan 2004, no. 1012, p. 543

Guido Andrea Pautasso, Piero Manzoni, Divorare l’arte, Milan 2015, illustrated (dated 1961)

Paris, Galerie Mathias Fels, Piero Manzoni, January 1970, illustrated

There are very few works like Achrome in Piero Manzoni's tragically short career that use tjhe "rosette", an Italian bread roll commonly found in the local Milanese trattorie he would have frequented. In a three-dimensional painting, six round bread rolls form a monochrome grid, petrified in white kaolin, the variety of white clay used to make porcelain. All the lyrical power of Achrome lies in this bold mix of reclaimed materials, which creates a detached, autonomous modernist monochrome surface.