Lot 48
  • 48

Piero Manzoni

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Piero Manzoni
  • Linea 33,30 m
  • signed, titled and dated 10/59 Milano on the reverse of the paper scroll
  • ink on paper in cardboard tube
  • 41 by 8.5 by 8.5cm.
  • 16 1/8 by 3 3/8 by 3 3/8 in.
  • Executed in 1959.

Provenance

Hermann Goepfert Collection, Frankfurt
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1972

Exhibited

Barcelona, Fundacío Caixa de Barcelona; Madrid, Fundacío Juan March, Zero, un Movimiento Europeo: Coleccíon Lenz Schönberg, 1988
Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, ZERO. Vision und Bewegung. Werke aus der Sammlung Lenz Schönberg, 1988, p. 63, illustrated in colour
Moscow, Zentrales Künstlerhaus, Sammlung Lenz Schönberg. Eine europäische Bewegung in der bildenden Kunst von 1958 bis heute, 1989
Düsseldorf, Stiftung museum kunst palast; Saint-Etienne, Musée d'Art Moderne, ZERO: Internationale Künstler-Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre, 2006-07, p. 176, illustrated 

Literature

Freddy Battino and Luca Palazzoli, Piero Manzoni Catalogue Raisonné, Milan 1991, p. 440, no. 972 BM, illustrated
Germano Celant, Piero Manzoni Catalogo Generale, Tomo Secondo, Milano 2004, p. 468, no. 509, illustrated
Anna and Gerhard Lenz with Ulrike Bleicker-Honisch, Epoche Zero. Sammlung Lenz Schönberg. Leben in Kunst, Vol. I, Ostfildern 2009, p. 54, no. MAN-04, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. The surface of the cylinder has some light wear and there are some minor losses to the black paper at its top. The paper label has light wear, watermarks, minor undulation and a few small tears towards its edges. The cylinder has previously been opened and the paper scroll inside is in very good condition.
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