Lot 32
  • 32

Sandro Chia

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Sandro Chia
  • Three Pupils
  • signed
  • oil and pencil on paper laid down on board
  • 197 by 234cm.
  • 77 1/2 by 92 1/8 in.
  • Executed in 1982.

Provenance

Marlborough Gallery, New York
Sperone Westwater Fischer, Inc., New York
Sale: Christie's, New York, Contemporary Art, 10 November 1988, Lot 310
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Private Collection, Arezzo
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

 

Exhibited

Bratislava, Slovak National Gallery, Something happened. Aspects of the new narratives, 2006, pp. 48-49, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the yellow and blue are brighter in the original. Condition: The work is in very good condition. There are artist's pin holes to all four corners. There is a vertical soft rippling to the centre of the paper, visible in the catalogue illustration and inherent to the artist's working process, and few further diagonal minor ones, inherent to the artist's working process.
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