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PIERO MANZONI (1933-1963)

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ID 949363
Lot 908 | PIERO MANZONI (1933-1963)
PIERO MANZONI (1933-1963)

Achrome

polyester soaked in cobalt chloride

25 x 19 1/4 in. (63.5 x 49 cm.)

Executed in 1960-1961.





Provenance

Galleria Notizie, Turin

Alfred Otto Mueller, Cologne

Joshua L. Mack, New York

Private collection, Chicago

Sperone Westwater, New York

Private collection, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2010



Literature

G. Celant, Piero Manzoni, Catalogo generale, Milan, 1975, p. 225, no. 6 cc (illustrated).

F. Battino and L. Palazzoli, eds., Piero Manzoni, Catalogue Raisonné, Milan, 1991, p. 416, no. 869 (illustrated).

Breakthroughs: Avant–Garde Artists in Europe and America, 1950–1990, exh. cat., New York, 1991, pp. 28 and 296 (illustrated).

G. Celant, Piero Manzoni, Catalogo generale, Milan, 2004, vol. I, p. 255, no. 840 (illustrated).

G. Celant, Piero Manzoni, Catalogo generale, Milan, 2004, vol. II, p. 517, no. 840.

Piero Manzoni, exh. cat., Naples, MADRE Museo di Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, 2007), Electa, pp. 208 and 389, no. 186 (illustrated).

ZERO, exh. cat., Berlin, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2015, pp. 392 and 526 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Columbus, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts at The Ohio State University, Art in Europe and America: The 1950s and 1960s, February-April 1990, pp. 28 and 296 (illustrated).

Madrid, Fundación Caixa de Pensiones; Turin, Castello di Rivoli, Piero Manzoni, October 1991-May 1992, p. 225.

New York, Sperone Westwater, Some Kind of Fact Some Kind of Fiction, January-February 1994.

Santa Monica, Patricia Faure Gallery, Fontana, Manzoni, Paolini, Garutti, Gastini, Summer 1995.

Gwacheon, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Tradition and Innovation: Italian Contemporary Art Since 1945, December 1995-January 1996.

Verona, Studio la Città, Mostra n. 197. Intimamente, July-October 1998, n.p., (illustrated).

New York, Sperone Westwater, AGAINST NATURE: Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, September-October 2000.

New York, Sperone Westwater, ZERO in New York, November-December 2008, p. 252 (illustrated).
Artist:Piero Manzoni (1933 - 1963)
Art style:Post War Art
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
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