Sacco (Sack)
1956
Oil and Vinavil on burlap and canvas
27 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches (69.8 x 40 cm)
© 2019 / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome
Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein
As a medic for the Royal Italian Army during the Second World War, Alberto Burri would have used burlap for innumerable purposes, and he employed it again for his first works—paintings on gunny sacks found at the camp where he was interned as a POW in Hereford,
