ID 949321
Lot 17 | ALIGHIERO BOETTI (1940-1994)
Estimate value
$ 2 500 000 – 3 500 000
Ammazzare il tempo
embroidery on canvas, in forty-nine parts
each: 6 5/8 x 7 1/8 in. (16.8 x 18.1 cm.)
overall: 46 3/8 x 49 7/8 in. (117.6 x 126.7 cm.)
Executed in 1979.
Provenance
Galleria LP 220, Torino
Private collection, Italy
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003
Literature
Connaissance des Arts, Paris, no. 531, September 1996, p. 28 (illustrated).
L. Pythoud, L’œil expo, Paris, no. 482, September-October 1996, n.p. (illustrated).
L’Officiel de la couture et de la mode de Paris, no. 809, October 1996, (illustrated).
J-C. Ammann, Alighiero Boetti, Catalogo generale, Tomo secondo, Milan, 2012, pp. 370 and 426, cat. no. 1187 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Turin, Galleria LP 220, Ammazzare il Tempo, 1981.
Paris, Galerie Krief, Alighiero E Boetti, September-November 1996.
| Artist: | Alighiero Boetti (1940 - 1994) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Alighiero Boetti (1940 - 1994) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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