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Gallery: 1980-1990

The Pricelist: Gallery 1980-1990

Please note: Not all pieces are for sale.

  1. Cubist self portrait. Oil on canvas 1980. 60×63 cms. £2500.00
  2. You cant hurry love. Acrylic and oil on canvas. 80×120 cms. £5000.00
  3. The Myth of Sysiphus. Oil on canvas. Private collection Scotland
  4. Hieroglyphic pointillist waterfall. Acrylic on canvas. 80×140 cms. £3500.00
  5. Young man listening to the voice of God the Father. Acrylic, powder paint on canvas. 150×230 cms. £7000.00
  6. The dance of the Squatters’. Acrylic and oil on canvas. 90×120 cms. Collection, Lesley Beastal London.
  7. City swimmer. Oil on canvas. 200×160 cms. Collection, Rachel Stockford London
  8. Four Interioroligist. Acrylic on canvas. 150×200 cms. £7000.00
  9. Mistic. Oil on canvas. 90×180 cms. Private collection London
  10. Counting out fish deities. 180×200 cms. £7000.00
  11. The Euclidian Bathes. Oil on canvas. 150×180 cms. Collection, Bernard and Kirsten Riechter Wimbledon London
  12. The enigma of the builders. Oil on canvas. 183×214 cms. Collection, Bernard and Kirsten Riechter, Wimbledon London

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Gallery: 1980-1990

Vincenco Donlini The nineteen eighties began with the artist’s work becoming more experimental, such as the ‘Cubist self portrait’. The real work was done in several sketch books where he explores all of the modern movements, from Cubism to Supremetism. This resulted in and concluded with the artist reading a book about the painter Piet Mondrian who said that after his work in abstraction that painting was dead.

The result was the discovery of ‘Hieroglyphic Pointillism’ this was already prevalent in such paintings as ‘You can’t hurry love’ and ‘The myth of Sisyphus’ painted during a six week ‘painting trip’ to Wales with Stephen Postgate. The conclusion of this experimental period ,which include some completely abstract paintings but in ‘Hieroglyphic Pointillist waterfall’ is a return to representational subject matter.

‘Young man listening to the voice of God the Father’ and ‘The Squatters’ ironically saw what the artist saw as, the loss of his faith and also the final loss of his virginity. These were painful times for the artist as he was unemployed and lived in a number of squats in Nottinghillgate and Brixton.

He did not cease painting however and after settling in to the ‘School House‘, Hammersmith (a former squat) with a low rent, went on to produce such paintings as “The City Swimmer” and “Four interiorologists” wading through a Styx of their own making” to give its full title. These were the fruits of this stability and although he was often with little, or no money he was making a few sales from his work. ‘Mistic’ and ‘Counting out Fish Deities’ also show the artist’s increasing confidence.

‘The Euclidian bathes’ was the fruit of a weekend studying perspective and one of the artist’s favourite paintings. It was shown at ‘Centre 181’, Hammersmith at a ‘one man show’ given to him by Tim Eastop who was then ‘curator’ of the Gallery; it was bought by Bernard Richter who was to become a patron, model and great friend. A reproduction of this work was shown to Marino Venturini in Switzerland by Dave Page resulting in the artist being invited to Switzerland to paint two commissioned paintings for a hotel owned by Venturini.

‘The Mysterious Builders’ also owned by Bernard Richter was painted after Vincenzo took several jobs on building sites as a labourer.

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