Contemporary Art Evening Auction

Contemporary Art Evening Auction

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Property From a Private Swiss Collection

ALIGHIERO BOETTI | OGGI È IL DECIMO GIORNO DEL NONO MESE DELL'ANNO MILLENOVECENTOOTTANTOTTO (QUANDO LE PAROLE SONO STANCHE) (TODAY IS THE TENTH DAY OF THE NINTH MONTH OF THE YEAR NINETEEN EIGHTY EIGHT (WHEN WORDS ARE TIRED))

Auction Closed

October 21, 07:16 PM GMT

Estimate

280,000 - 350,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property From a Private Swiss Collection

ALIGHIERO BOETTI

1940 - 1994

OGGI È IL DECIMO GIORNO DEL NONO MESE DELL'ANNO MILLENOVECENTOOTTANTOTTO (QUANDO LE PAROLE SONO STANCHE) (TODAY IS THE TENTH DAY OF THE NINTH MONTH OF THE YEAR NINETEEN EIGHTY EIGHT (WHEN WORDS ARE TIRED))


signed on the overlap

embroidery on canvas

106 by 111.3 cm. 41¾ by 43⅞ in.

Executed in 1988. 


This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome under number 88/RL/1 and will be included in the forthcoming VI Volume of the artist’s catalogue raisonné under the number 932.

Sperone Westwater, Lugano

Private Collection, London (acquired from the above) 

Acquired from the above by the present owner