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Fausto Melotti
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Fausto Melotti
- Tre Tempi
- signed, and numbered 1/2
- gold and silver
- 11 3/4 by 11 3/4 by 2 1/2 in. 30 by 30 by 6.5 cm.
- Executed in 1972, this work is number 1 from an edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof.
signed and dated 1972
aluminium
height: 30cm.
Executed in 1972, this work is from an edition of two plus one artist's proof.
aluminium
height: 30cm.
Executed in 1972, this work is from an edition of two plus one artist's proof.
Provenance
Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Rome
São Schlumberger (acquired from the above in July 1972)
Gift to the present owner from the above
São Schlumberger (acquired from the above in July 1972)
Gift to the present owner from the above
Literature
Abraham Marie Hammacher, Melotti, Milan, 1975, cat. no. 161, illustrated
Germano Celant, Melotti: Catalogo Generale, Tomo I: Sculpture 1929-1972, Milan, 1994, cat. no. 1971.57, p. 298, illustrated
Germano Celant, Melotti: Catalogo Generale, Tomo I: Sculpture 1929-1972, Milan, 1994, cat. no. 1971.57, p. 298, illustrated
Catalogue Note
"In the Teatrini, I didn't want to abandon the rigorous idea of a counterpoint, but instead I wanted to create something in a sense figurative, shifting it however to a metaphysical abstract setting." - Fausto Melotti