Lot 54
  • 54

Piero Manzoni

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Description

  • Piero Manzoni
  • Achrome
  • kaolin on pleated canvas
  • 50 by 70cm.
  • 19 5/8 by 27 1/2 in.
  • Executed circa 1959.

Provenance

Galerie Lambert Tegenbosch, Heusden
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Literature

Germano Celant, Piero Manzoni Catalogo Generale, Milan 2004, Vol. II, p. 447, no. 357, illustrated

Catalogue Note

"The difficulty lies in freeing oneself from extraneous details and useless gestures; details and gestures that are polluting the customary art of our day." (Piero Manzoni quoted in Exhibition Catalogue, London, The Serpentine Gallery, Piero Manzoni, 1998, p. 69)