ENZO CUCCHI (B. 1949)

Lot 192
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Lot 192 | ENZO CUCCHI (B. 1949)
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ENZO CUCCHI (B. 1949)

La Casa dei Barbari (The House of Barbarians)

signed, titled, and dated '1982 Enzo Cucchi LA CASA DEI BARBARI' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

123 3/4 x 83 3/4in. (314.2 x 212.7cm.)

Painted in 1982





Provenance

Sperone Gallery, Turin

Annina Nosei Gallery, New York.

Emily and Jerry Spiegel, New York.

Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 4 May 1989, lot 306.

Private Collection, USA.

Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich.

Acquired from the above by the present owner.



Literature

E. Lucie-Smith (ed.), Art in the Eighties, Oxford 1990 (illustrated, p. 26).

A. Papadakis, C. Farrow, and N. Hodges (eds.), New Art. An International Survey, London 1991 (illustrated in colour, p. 141).

Transavanguardia, exh. cat., Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (illustrated, p. 251).



Exhibited

Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Zeitgeist, 1982, no. 48, p. 115 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984, 1985, no. 46 (illustrated in colour, p.74).

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Enzo Cucchi, 1986, no. 30 (illustrated in colour, p. 52).

Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Enzo Cucchi: Testa, 1988. This exhibition later travelled to Edinburgh, The Fruitmarket Gallery and Nice, Musée de la Ville de Nice.

Prato, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Enzo Cucchi, 1989, (installation view of Martin-Gropius-Bau illustrated, p. 213; illustrated in colour, p. 104).

Rome, Castello Colonna Centro Internazionale per l'Arte Contemporanea Genazzano, Enzo Cucchi, 2002, p. 253 (illustrated in colour, p.19).



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