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Beyond the Canvas: Pioneers of Italian Art from the Levett Collection

Enrico Castellani

Superficie blu

Auction Closed

March 5, 01:40 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Enrico Castellani

1930 - 2017


Superficie blu

signed and dated 61 (on the overlap)

ink and wax on canvas

50 by 69 cm. 19¾ by 27⅛ in.

framed: 52.5 by 72 cm. 20⅝ by 28⅜ in.

Executed in 1961.


This work is registered in the Fondazione Enrico Castellani, Milan, under the number 61-005 and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Archivio Castellani, Milan.

Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome

Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan

Gianni Malabarba, Milan

Finarte, Milan, 11 November 2015, lot 58

M&L Fine Art, London

Acquired from the above in 2016 by the present owner

Milan, Galleria dell'Ariete, Castellani, February 1973, no. 3, n.p.

Ravenna, Loggetta Lombardesca, Castellani, June - September 1984, no. 17, p. 44, illustrated in colour

Milan, Fondazione Prada, Enrico Castellani, 1958-1970, April - June 2001, p. 121, illustrated in colour

London, Robilant & Voena, 20th Century Masterworks from Private Collections, January - March 2024

Germano Celant and Ida Giannelli, Memoria del futuro, Milan 1990, p. 173, illustrated in colour

Renata Wirz and Federico Sardella, Enrico Castellani, Catalogo ragionato, Opere 1955-2005, Vol. II, Milan 2012, no. 93, p. 333, illustrated in colour