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Arte Moderna e Contemporanea

18 April 2018 - 19 April 2018 | 7:00 PM CEST | Milan

SALE TOTAL

13,631,875EUR
Browse Lots
  • 12
    Lucio Fontana
    Concetto spaziale, Attese
    LOT SOLD.2,409,000EUR
  • 4
    Lucio Fontana
    Concetto Spaziale
    LOT SOLD.1,089,000EUR
  • 31
    Lucio Fontana
    Soffitto: Concetto Spaziale
    LOT SOLD.1,029,000EUR
  • 37
    Lucio Fontana
    Concetto spaziale, Attesa
    LOT SOLD.729,000EUR
  • 16
    Piero Dorazio
    Un bel niente
    LOT SOLD.489,000EUR
  • 25
    Michelangelo Pistoletto
    Palloncino giallo con sgabello
    LOT SOLD.489,000EUR
  • 28
    Arnaldo Pomodoro
    Sfera con sfera
    LOT SOLD.489,000EUR
  • 24
    Lucio Fontana
    Concetto spaziale
    LOT SOLD.465,000EUR
  • 6
    Alighiero Boetti
    Oggi, ventunesimo giorno undicesimo mese dell'anno millenovecentoottantotto
    LOT SOLD.417,000EUR
  • 11
    Enrico Castellani
    Superficie argento
    LOT SOLD.393,000EUR
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Sale Number: MI0337 Lots : 91

SALE TOTAL

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Sessions

  • Session 1: 18 Apr 2018 | 07:00 PM | Lots 1 - 46
  • Session 2: 19 Apr 2018 | 03:30 PM | Lots 101 - 147
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BIDDING FORM

LUCIO FONTANA AND OSVALDO BORSANI
FROM A MILANESE RESIDENCE

The spring sale of Modern and Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Milan will take place during the MIART Fair and the Salone del Mobile, undoubtedly the best time of the year for art in Milan.

Among the highlights of the sale, we present ten iconic lots from a private Italian collection. Bendato by Salvatore Scarpitta, formerly exhibited at Leo Castelli’s gallery, New York, sits alongside Fiori, a delicate 1952 still life by Giorgio Morandi, as well as Umberto Boccioni’s 1911 Testa di bambina, formerly in the renowned Ruberl collection in Frankfurt. From the same collection, Arte Povera is represented by a mirrored work by Michelangelo Pistoletto dated 1982.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sotheby’s in Italy, we are pleased to offer a wide selection of artworks by Lucio Fontana: the cover is dedicated to an harmonious canvas with four slashes dated 1967. Next, we find a bright orange work dated 1964 with a single central cut; the painting is inscribed with a reference to the French critic Michel Tapié.The selection is completed with a gold oil on canvas, Concetto Spaziale, executed in 1963-64 and a thickly painted ‘olio’ executed in 1961.

In addition, some remarkable ceramic sculptures illustrate Fontana’s ability to work the material: we find a 1956 terracotta from a private Italian collection in Como and a 1964-65 rare white oval from the Liverani Collection in Rome.

In conjunction with Milan Design Week, we are delighted to include wonderful environmental art works, fruit of the collaboration between Lucio Fontana and the designer, Osvaldo Borsani, for a distinguished Milanese residence in the early 50s.

The selection also includes two magnificent canvases by Piero Dorazio, from a European private collection, a Bianco executed in 1960 by Alberto Burri and donated by the artist to the curator Paul Wember, and two embroidered tapestries by Alighiero Boetti from 1988.

Taking pride of place is a painting by Renato Guttuso, titled La Discussione , formerly shown at New York’s Aca Heller Gallery, which evokes a similar work in London’s Tate Modern.

Among the international artists we find the 1956 Gris Brun Noir Rouge by Serge Poliakoff, a composition titled Fines vibrations en blue et noir by Jesús-Rafael Soto, dated 1974, and works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Carlos Cruz-Diez.

 

 

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Claudia Dwek
Chairman Contemporary Art Europe
Deputy Chairman Europe, Chairman, Italy
+39 02 2950 0278
claudia.dwek@sothebys.com
Raphaelle Blanga
Senior Director
Head of Department
Contemporary Art
+39 02 2950 0225
raphaelle.blanga@sothebys.com
Marta Giani
Director
Head of sale
Contemporary Art
+39 02 29 500 273
marta.giani@sothebys.com
Roberta Dell'Acqua
Director
Head of Research
Specialist
Contemporary Art
+39 02 2950 0227
roberta.dellacqua@sothebys.com
   
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