Contemporary Art | Milan

Contemporary Art | Milan

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Alighiero Boetti

FACCINE COLORATE

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November 27, 03:22 PM GMT

Estimate

24,000 - 30,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

ALIGHIERO BOETTI

1940 - 1994

FACCINE COLORATE


signed

offset print and mixed media on paper

Executed in 1979


This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome, under the n. 2568 and it is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome.


(firmato

stampa in offset e tecnica mista su carta

Eseguito nel 1979


Opera registrata presso l'Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Roma, con il n. 2568 ed accompagnata da certificato di autenticità rilasciato dall'Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Roma.)


cm 80.5x67.5; inches 31.69 by 26.57

Framed: cm 113x100x4,5; inches 44.49 by 39.37 by 1.77


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Toselli collection, Milan
Private collection, Rome
Acquired from the above by the present owner (Ivi acquistato dall'attuale proprietario)
“…Alighiero had a great quantity of this poster printed. He didn’t sell them but gave them away. He gifted a poster, not an artwork. He would suggest to the those lucky enough to receive it to colour the poster. If, after their intervention, Boetti found it appealing, he would give it the status of artwork (usually by signing it) otherwise it remained a nice poster! My father would advise them to have their children colour it, but under these conditions they were terrified and didn’t want to risk entrusting their children with a hypothetical work of art!”
Agata Boetti, Il gioco dell'arte con mio padre Alighiero, Milano 2016

“...Alighiero aveva fatto stampare una grandissima quantità di questo poster. Non li vendeva ma li dava. Regalava un poster non un’opera. Suggeriva ai felici destinatari di colorare il poster. Se, dopo il loro intervento, Boetti lo trovava bello, gli dava lo statuto di opera (di solito firmandolo) sennò restava un bel poster! Un regalo avvelenato! Mio padre gli consigliava di farlo colorare dai loro figli, ma a queste condizioni erano terrorizzati e non volevano rischiare di affidare ai loro figli un’ipotetica opera d’arte!”