BLINKY PALERMO (1943-1977)
15.10.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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800000GBP £ 800 000
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ID 1472470
Lot 59 | BLINKY PALERMO (1943-1977)
Estimate value
£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
Untitled
signed, inscribed and dated 'Teil II Palermo 71’ (on the reverse of the right panel); inscribed 'T1 links' (on the reverse of the left panel)
dyed cotton mounted on muslin, in two parts
overall: 78 7/8 x 55 ¼in. (200.2 x 140.4cm.)
Executed in 1971
Provenance
Galerie Rolf Preisig, Basel.
Acquired from the above by the Crex Collection in 1975.
Thence to the present owner.
Literature
T. Moeller (ed.), Palermo, Bilder und Objekte, Werkverzeichnis, Band I, Bonn 1995, no. 145 (illustrated in colour, p. 196).
Exhibited
Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange, Palermo, Stoffbilder, 1966-1972, 1977-1978, pp. 28 and 53, no 51.
Zurich, InK. Halle für internationale neue Kunst, Kunst der 60er und 70er Jahre, Werke aus der Sammlung Crex, 1978-1979 (illustrated in colour, p. 93). This exhibition later travelled to Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Munich, Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbenmuseum.
Bozen, Ar/Ge Kunst, Palermo, 1989-1990.
Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Palermo, 2007-2008, no. 145, p. 199 (illustrated in colour, p. 69).
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977, 2010-2011, pp. 156 & 199 (illustrated in colour, p. 157). this exhibition later travelled to Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Beacon, Dia: Beacon, CCS Bard Annandale-on-Hudson.
Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee, The Revolution Is Dead. Long Live the Revolution! From Malevich to Judd, from Deineka to Bartana, 2017 (illustrated in colour, p. 172).
| Artist: | Blinky Palermo (1943 - 1977) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Blinky Palermo (1943 - 1977) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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