Emily Braun, curator of “Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting,” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through Jan. 6, 2016, writes in the catalog that “From his early exhibitions Burri was ...

NEW YORK — What Europeans — what the rest of the world, in fact — can’t bear about Americans is their naivete. To the extent that naivete is a function of innocence, and even of energy, it ...

Alberto Burri was an Italian artist and one of the most prominent abstract painters of the 20th century. View Alberto Burri’s 1,328 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, ...

A century after Alberto Burri was born, the Italian postwar artist is having a moment. Burri’s work seems to be everywhere this fall, from a major retrospective, “Alberto Burri: The Trauma of ...

Alberto Burri, “Grande cretto nero (Large Black Cretto)” (1977), acrylic and PVA on Celotex, 149.5 x 249.5 cm, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création ...

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Lucian Freud and Alberto Burri paintings sold for $5 million each in London last night at a Sotheby’s auction overshadowed by concern about market weakness and a protest by U.S. art handlers ...

Burri turned to art after serving as a physician for the Italian Army in the Second World War and being interned in a P.O.W. camp in Texas. After early experiments with tar-shellacked canvases, he ...

Alberto Burri was fiercely opposed to any interpretation of his paintings. It was art, nothing more, he often pointed out. “I see beauty and that is all,” the late Italian Abstract artist told ...

The return to the Venice Biennale of Alberto Burri’s flame-bright, black-burnt, brutally gorgeous paintings, in a major retrospective at the Cini Foundation on the island of San Giorgio, sends ...