Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

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Property from an Important Private Collection

Piero Manzoni

Achrome

Auction Closed

June 25, 06:56 PM GMT

Estimate

2,800,000 - 3,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Piero Manzoni

1933 - 1963


Achrome

signed and variously inscribed (on the stretcher)

kaolin on canvas

100.4 by 70 cm. 39½ by 27½ in.

Executed in 1958-59.

Galleria II Punto, Turin

Private Collection, Turin

Private Collection

Sotheby's, London, 7 February 2007, lot 18 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's, New York, 18 November 2021, lot 123 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner 

Germano Celant, Piero Manzoni Catalogo Generale, Milan 1975, no. 99 cg, p. 148, illustrated (incorrect orientation)

Freddy Battino and Luca Palazzoli, Piero Manzoni Catalogue Raisonné, Milan 1991, no. 362, p. 278, illustrated

Germano Celant, Piero Manzoni Catalogo Generale, vol. II, Milan 2004, no. 253, p. 431, illustrated (incorrect orientation)

London, Serpentine Gallery, Piero Manzoni, February - April 1998, pp. 98-99, illustrated in colour and p. 285 (text )