ALIGHIERO BOETTI (1940-1994)

Lot 17
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$ 2 500 000
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ID 949321
Lot 17 | ALIGHIERO BOETTI (1940-1994)
Estimate value
$ 2 500 000 – 3 500 000
ALIGHIERO BOETTI (1940-1994)

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.
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