Lot 48
  • 48

Agostino Bonalumi

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Agostino Bonalumi
  • Rosso
  • acrylic on shaped canvas
  • 112 by 131cm.; 44 1/8 by 51 5/8 in.
  • Executed in 2010.

Provenance

Galerie Vedovi, Brussels

Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2010.

Exhibited

Brussels, Galerie Vedovi, Agostino Bonalumi, 2010

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Extremely close inspection reveals a minute speck of loss to the bottom left corner and an extremely faint drip mark 20 centimetres diagonally from the bottom left corner. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra-violet light.
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Catalogue Note

“My work has never been about indulging a material for the sake of it. It’s the result of an active interest in materials themselves, the intelligence of materials.”  Agostino Bonalumi

Quoted in: Francesca Pola. Agostino Bonalumi: All the Shapes of Space 1958-1976,  2014. p 9