ALIGHIERO BOETTI (1940-1994)

Lot 26
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ID 1163431
Lot 26 | ALIGHIERO BOETTI (1940-1994)
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£ 650 000 – 850 000
ALIGHIERO BOETTI (1940-1994)

Mettere al mondo il mondo (Bringing the world into the world)

ballpoint pen on paper laid down on canvas, in five parts

each: 39 ¼ x 27 5⁄8in. (99.6 x 70.3cm.)

overall: 39 ¼ x 138 3⁄8in. (99.6 x 351.5cm.)

Executed circa 1974





Provenance

Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.



Literature

La Pensée Tangible. Huit parcours exemplaires en France et en Italie / Il Pensiero Tangibile. Otto percorsi esemplari in Francia e in Italia, exh. cat., Bologna, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, 1992, no. 2 (illustrated, p. 48; dated '1972').

A. Pohlen and S. Widner (eds.), Alighiero e Boetti. 1965-1992. Synchronizität als ein Prinzip akausaler Zusammenhänge, exh. cat., Bonn, Bonner Kunstverein, 1992 (illustrated in colour, pp. 54-55; dated '1972').

J-C. Ammann, Alighiero Boetti catalogo generale, vol. II, Milan 2012, p. 411, no. 582 (illustrated in colour, p. 140).



Further Details

This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome, under no. 289.
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