Lot 33
  • 33

Francesco Clemente

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Francesco Clemente
  • Fifty One Days on Mount ABU: XLIII Tree
  • partially titled 43 on the reverse; signed on a label affixed to the backing board
  • watercolor on handmade paper
  • 21 1/8 by 27 7/8 in. 53.7 by 70.8 cm.
  • Executed in 1996.

Provenance

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1997

Exhibited

London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Francesco Clemente, Fifty One Days on Mount Abu, April - May 1997 
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, CLEMENTE, October 1999 - June 2000, cat. no. 80, p. 165, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The edges of the sheet are deckled. There is a possible surface scratch at the lower middle area of the composition. There are natural elements within the handmade paper and some minor surface irregularities visible throughout and consistent with the artist's chosen medium. Framed under Plexiglas.
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