Lot 571
  • 571

Francesco Clemente

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Francesco Clemente
  • Smoke in the Room
  • Fresco
  • 78 3/4 by 118 in. 199.1 by 299.7 cm.
  • Executed in 1981.

Provenance

Saatchi Collection, London
Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zürich
Peter Blum, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, The First Show: Painting and Scultpture from Eight Collections 1940 - 1980, November 1983 - February 1984
Sarasota, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Dallas Museum of Art; Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Francesco Clemente, October 1985 - March 1987, pl. 52, illustrated in color
Madrid, Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Francesco Clemente, April - May 1987, cat. no. 19, illustrated in color
New York, Peter Blum, Francesco Clemente, Works from 1980 - 1990, November 1995 - January 1996

Literature

Alfred MacAdam, "Francesco Clemente," ARTnews, Vol.  95, no. 3, March 1996, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There are scattered surface abrasions with resultant paint loss along the extreme bottom edge; the largest being a 1 ¾ inch abrasion located 23 inches from the left edge. This work has not been examined under UV light. Unframed.
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