Lot 147
  • 147

Giuseppe Penone

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Giuseppe Penone
  • Scrive, Legge, Ricorda (Writes, Reads, Remembers)Alfabeto. Cuneo di Ferro da Piantare in un Albero; l’Albero Crescendo lo Assimilerà. (Alphabet. Iron Wedge to be Planted in a Tree; The Tree will Assimilate it whilst Growing)
  • iron
  • 7 by 53.5 by 3.5cm.; 2 3/4 by 21 by 1 3/8 in.
  • Executed in 1969.

Provenance

Alfonso Artiaco Spazio d'Arte, Naples
Acquired directly from the above by the late owner in 1986 

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, Turin, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Giuseppe Penone, 1991, p. 37, illustrated
Germano Celant, Ed., Penone, Milan 1989, pp.42-43, illustrated
Laurent Busine, Ed., Giuseppe Penone, Brussels 2012, p. 230, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Visible only upon close inspection, there is evidence of light oxidisation and minor burnishing in places.
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