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Alighiero Boetti. Pisciarsi in Bocca

Lot 526 A
03.12.2025 18:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerVAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH
Event locationGermany, Köln
Buyer Premium32%
ID 1515328
Lot 526 | Alighiero Boetti. Pisciarsi in Bocca
Estimate value
€ 12 000 – 18 000
BOETTI, ALIGHIERO
1940 Turin - 1994 Rom

Title: "Pisciarsi in Bocca".
Subtitle: From: Nove quadrati.
Date: 1979.
Technique: Watercolour and pencil on Laid paper Rinaldo Rossi (watermark).
Measurement: 18.5 x 18.5cm.
Notation: Numbered and signed in the depiction top: 13/40 alighiero boetti.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


Enclosed with this work is a certificate by the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome, dated October 14th, 2025. It is registered at the Archivio Alighiero Boetti under no. 10623.

This work is part of the series 'Nove quadrati', which was created for the Plura Gallery in Milan by Roberto Arioli. The series consists of nine different sets set graphically on square laid paper, each of which was coloured differently in an edition of 40 copies. Each of the copies is therefore unique.

Provenance:
- Private collection Italy
- Gilden's Art, London
- Private collection Switzerland (in 2011 acquired from the previous owner)

Literature:
- Ammann, Jean-Christophe: Alighiero Boetti - Catalogo generale, Tomo secondo, Opere 1972-1979, Milan 2012, cat. rais. no. 1160

- Alighiero Boetti is one of the most significant Italian artists of the 20th century and influenced the Arte Povera profoundly
- Watercolour with filigree colouring and an onteresting arrangeemnt of the letters that seem to dissolve into geometric fields.
Artist:Alighiero Boetti (1940 - 1994)
Auction house category:Post War
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