Lot 10
  • 10

Gianni Colombo

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gianni Colombo
  • Strutturazione pulsante
  • signed and dated Milano 1960 on the stretcher; signed on a label affixed to the stretcher
  • polystyrene in wooden box with electrical motor

  • 157 by 162 by 23cm.
  • 61 3/4 by 63 3/4 by 9in.
  • This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Provenance

Galerie m, Bochum
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1972

Exhibited

Milan, Galleria Pater, Colombo, 1960
Milan, Galleria San Fedele, Mostra Premio S. Fedele, 1960
Bochum, Galerie m, Gianni Colombo, 1972
Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Das Städel zeigt: Beispiele aus der Sammlung Lenz, Kronberg,1974-75, n.p., no. 6
Salzburg, Museum Carolino Augusteum, Bilder und Objekte aus der Sammlung Lenz Schönberg. Eine europäische Bewegung, 1985
Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, ZERO. Vision und Bewegung. Werke aus der Sammlung Lenz Schönberg, 1988, p. 135, illustrated in colour
Moscow, Zentrales Künstlerhaus, Sammlung Lenz Schönberg. Eine europäische Bewegung in der bildenden Kunst von 1958 bis heute, 1989, p. 148, illustrated

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, Warsaw, Galeria Zachęta, Sammlung Lenz Schönberg. Aus der Stille der Zeit - über die Grenzen von Raum, 1992, p. 99, illustrated
Exhibition Catalogue, Salzburg, Museum der Moderne, ZERO. Künstler einer europäischen Bewegung. Sammlung Lenz Schönberg 1956-2006, 2006, p. 39, illustrated
Exhibition Catalogue, Düsseldorf, Stiftung museum kunst palast; Saint-Etienne, Musée d'Art Moderne, ZERO: Internationale Künstler-Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre, 2006-07, p. 123, illustrated 
Anna and Gerhard Lenz with Ulrike Bleicker-Honisch, Epoche Zero. Sammlung Lenz Schönberg. Leben in Kunst, Vol. I, Ostfildern 2009, p. 62, no. CO-01, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are accurate although the illustration fails to convey the sculptural nature and kinetic movement of the work. Condition: This work is in very good and sound working condition. There is a very small group of minute media accretions towards the left of the centre, and minor rubbing to the overturn edges and minor indentations to the surface of the blocks throughout, as to be expected with the polystyrene medium. There is an indentation to the extreme overturn lower right edge, and minor ones to the top left corner tip, the extreme overturn of the lower left edge and towards the lower left corner. No restoration is apparent under ultraviolet light.
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