20th Century Italian Art

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Lot 34
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Fausto Melotti

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 GBP
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Description

  • Fausto Melotti
  • The Apartheid
  • bronze and brass
  • 74 by 33 by 28cm.
  • 29 1/8 by 13 by 11in.
  • Executed in 1967.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner circa 1970

Exhibited

Parma, Università di Parma, Fausto Melotti, 1976, no. 160
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Melotti, 1983, p. 39, fig. 19, illustrated
Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Fausto Melotti, 1999, p. 106, no. 59, illustrated in colour
Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe; Duisburg, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Fausto Melotti: Rigor and Rationality - Poetry and Playfulness, Retrospective 1928-1986, Milan 2000, p. 84, illustrated in colour

Literature

Abraham M. Hammacher, Melotti, Milan 1975, no. 64, illustrated in colour
La Vernice, Venice April 1983, p. 22, illustrated
La Repubblica, Rome 30 May 1983, illustrated
Panorama, 13 June 1983, p. 20, illustrated
Roberto Tassi, 'Quelle Statue Fatte di Niente', in: La Repubblica, Rome 24 June 1986, illustrated
Germano Celant, Melotti: Catalogo Generale, Sculture 1929-1972, Vol. I, Milan 1996, p. 186, no. 1967 5, illustrated in colour