Lot 5
  • 5

Piero Manzoni

Estimate
350,000 - 450,000 GBP
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Description

  • Piero Manzoni
  • Achrome
  • kaolin on canvas
  • 65 by 50cm.
  • 25 5/8 by 19 5/8 in.
  • Executed in 1958.

Provenance

Private Collection, Switzerland (a gift from the artist)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, Post-War and Contemporary Art, 6 December 1984, Lot 514
Ippolito Simonis Studio d'Arte, Turin
Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
Helme Prinzen/ Gallery 44, Düsseldorf
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1987

Exhibited

Turin, Ippolito Simonis Studio d'Arte, Piero Manzoni, 1985, n.p., illustrated
Düsseldorf, K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, And the beat goes on (Helme Prinzen und die Stiftung für junge Kunst), 2003

Literature

Freddy Battino & Luca Palazzoli, Piero Manzoni Catalogue Raisonné, Milan 1991, p. 327, no. 562 BM, illustrated (upside down)
Germano Celant, Piero Manzoni Catalogo Generale, Tomo secondo, Milan 2004, p. 419, no. 167, illustrated (upside down)