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Lot 286
  • 286

Arnaldo Pomodoro

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Arnaldo Pomodoro
  • Sfera
  • signed and numbered 3/6 on the base
  • bronze with Plexiglas base

  • Overall: 13 1/4 by 11 3/4 by 11 3/4 in. 33.6 by 29.9 by 29.9 cm.
  • Executed in 1981.

Provenance

Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1981

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There is scattered evidence of oxidation in the crevices of the sculpture and scattered fine surface abrasions. Otherwise there are no other apparent condition problems with this work.
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Catalogue Note

"Today I think of my sculptures as crystals, or nuclei, or as eyes, or signal fires; and I see them as relating to borders and voyages, to the worlds of complexity and imagination." - Arnaldo Pomodoro, 2008