Lot 32
  • 32

Alighiero Boetti

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Alighiero Boetti
  • Calligrafia
  • signed on the reverse
  • Indian ink on paper
  • 70 by 69.5 cm. 27 5/8 by 27 3/8 in.
  • Executed in 1971.

Provenance

Galleria LP 220, Turin

Galleria Franz Paludetto, Turin

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1982

 

Exhibited

Ravenna, Loggetta Lombardesca-Pinacoteca Comunale, Alighiero & Boetti, December 1984 – February 1985, n.p., no. 19, illustrated

Villeurbanne, Le Nouveau Musée; Nice, Villa Arson; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum; Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum, Alighiero e Boetti, Insicuro noncurante, February – April 1986

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Alighiero e Boetti, September – November 1999, p. 45, no. 38, illustrated

Literature

Martina De Luca, Alighiero Boetti, Ravenna 1990, p. 40, no. 30, illustrated

Jean-Christophe Ammann, Alighiero Boetti, Catalogo Generale, Vol. I, Milan 2009, p. 281, no. 353, illustrated

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate. Condition: Please refer to the department for a professional condition report.
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