ETTORE SOTTSASS (1917-2007)

Lot 93
08.06.2023 11:00UTC -05:00
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ID 976524
Lot 93 | ETTORE SOTTSASS (1917-2007)
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$ 200 000 – 300 000
ETTORE SOTTSASS (1917-2007)

Unique and Important 'Menhir della Vita', 1966

executed by Bitossi, Montelupo Fiorentino

glazed ceramic, laminated wood

7 ft. 8 in. (233.7 cm) high, 1 ft. (30.5 cm) diameter (without base)

three elements signed SOTTSASS '66 and each element is numbered





Provenance

Collection of the artist

Estate of the artist

More Gallery, Switzerland, 2013

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

T. Trini, "Ceramiche 67", Domus, no. 455, October 1967, p. 30

F. Pivano, "Ettore Sottsass: Ceramiche dal 1955 al 1970" Domus, May 1993, no. 749, p. 71

B. Bischofbeger, Ettore Sottsass Ceramics, Switzerland, 1995, p. 87

F. Ferrari, Ettore Sottsass: Tutta la Ceramica, Turin, 1996, p. 145

M. Carboni, ed., Ettore Sottsass Jr., '60-'70, exh. cat. FRAC Centre, Oreleans, May-July 2006, p. 103

S. Schöne, Ettore Sottsass: And The Tower of Babel Was Also Made of Terracotta, Cologne, 2011, p. 71 (for a drawing)

Ettore Sottsass Ceramics, exh. cat. Hetjens Museum, Deutsches Keramikmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2012, p. 106

P. Thomé, Ettore Sottsass, New York, 2014, pp. 211, 212 (for a drawing), 213

F. Ferrari, Sottsass: One Thousand Ceramics, Turin, 2017, pp. 127-128

G. Moreno and A. Gartenfeld, Ettore Sottsass and the Social Factory, exh. cat., Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, 2020, pp. 71 (drawing), 76 (drawing), 77-78

M.-A.Brayer, Ettore Sottsass: l'objet magique, exh. cat., Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2021, p. 79



Exhibited

Milan, Galleria Sperone, Menhir, Ziggurat, Stupas, Hydrants & Gas Pumps, April 1967, then traveled to Genoa, Galleria La Bertesca, June 1967

Agliana, Poltronova, Ceramiche Sbagliate, September 1967

Paris, Centre George Pompidou, Ettore Sottsass, April-September 1994

Maastricht, The Netherlands, Gallery Mourmans, Ettore Sottsass: Works '62 -'72, March 2013

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Breuer, Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical, July - October 2017

Miami, ICA Miami, Ettore Sottsass and the Social Factory, April-October 2019
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