ID 1163431
Lot 26 | ALIGHIERO BOETTI (1940-1994)
Estimate value
£ 650 000 – 850 000
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.
| Artist: | Alighiero Boetti (1940 - 1994) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Alighiero Boetti (1940 - 1994) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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