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Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Arnaldo Pomodoro

1926 - 2025


Asta Cielare X

incised with the artist's signature and numbered p.a. (on the base)

bronze

245 by 38 by 38 cm. 96½ by 15 by 15 in.

Executed in 1978-80, this is the artist's proof from an edition of 3, plus 1 artist's proof.

Estate of Jacqueline Paley Wolber, California

Acquired as a gift from the above in 2003 by the present owner

Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art; Jacksonville, Jacksonville Art Museum; Worcester, Worcester Art Museum; Little Rock, Arkansas Arts Center and Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Fisher Gallery, Arnaldo Pomodoro: A Quarter Century, December 1983 - October 1985, no. 23, p. 26, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Umberto Allemandi, Arte Italiana 1960/80, Turin 1984, p. 141, illustration in colour of another example

Exh. Cat., Varese, Castello di Masnago, Arnaldo Pomodoro a Varese, 1998, p. 14, illustration of another example

Flaminio Gualdoni, ed., Arnaldo Pomodoro: Catalogo Ragionato della Scultura, Vol. II, Milan 2007, no. 638, p. 604, illustration of another example

Carlo Pirovano e Francesco Tedechi, eds., L'arte moderna in Intesa Sanpaolo: Il secondo dopoguerra, Milano 2012, no. 586, p. 383, illustration in colour of another example