Lot 50
  • 50

Blinky Palermo

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
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Description

  • Blinky Palermo
  • Untitled
  • signed and dated 70
  • acrylic on board
  • 52 by 110cm.
  • 20 1/2 by 43 1/4 in.

Provenance

Wolfgang Rack, Frankfurt
Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
Private Collection, Germany
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani; London, Serpentine Gallery, Blinky Palermo, 2002-03, p. 86, illustrated in colour

Literature

Erich Maas and Delano Greenidge, Blinky Palermo 1943 - 1977, New York 1989, p. 97, illustrated in colour
Thordis Moeller, Ed., Exhibition Catalogue, Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Palermo. Bilder und Objekte, 1994-95, Werkverzeichnis Band I, 1995, n.p., no. 130, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the overall tonality is lighter in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Very close inspection reveals light wear to the bottom left and right corners. There is a very minor spot of paint loss to the centre of the right edge of the hexagonal board and a further minute paint loss towards the centre. No restoration is apparent under ultra violet light.
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