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historical notes
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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. She showed a range of works from 17th-century Indian miniatures to 19th-century American quilts, but the focus of the gallery was the work of living artists.
The Galleria dell’Ariete rapidly became one of the foremost galleries for contemporary art, introducing young Italian artists to American collectors and promoting contemporary American artists in Italy through associations with the galleries Kasmin and Waddington in London, and Leo Castelli and Betty Parsons in New York. She also exhibited English artists, including Francis Bacon and David Hockney, and modern Asian art.
In 1970 Monti della Corte opened the Ariete Grafica, dedicated to drawings, prints, and editions of small sculptures. She closed Gallerie dell’Ariete as an exhibition space in 1979, though she maintained an office and continued dealing until about 1983. Ariete Grafica remained open into the mid-1980s.
As late as 1993 Monti delle Corti was using the Via San Andrea address to loan artworks from her personal collection, but her galleries were by then closed.
(Information taken directly from finding aid: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat525195) |
