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Michelangelo Pistoletto
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description
- Michelangelo Pistoletto
- Scopa (Broom)
signed and titled on the reverse
- painted tissue paper on stainless steel
- 90 1/2 by 47 1/4 in. 229.9 by 120 cm.
- Executed in 1967-1968.
Provenance
Kornblee Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1969
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1969
Catalogue Note
“This basic dichotomy is the 'Mirror Paintings'. Everything in front of us, that is, inside the mirroring surface (the self-same idea of progress, advancement) is rediscovered thanks to a perspective that directs the glance backwards, because that which I face in the mirror is really behind my back. The mirror is therefore the end of objectivity. As objectivity comes to an end, a mirror gives rise to virtuality” - Michelangelo Pistoletto (Exh. Cat., Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, Michelangelo Pistoletto: Shifting Perspective ('I am the Other'), 1999, p. 19)