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Property from an eclectic private Italian collection

Fausto Melotti

Arabesque

Auction Closed

April 20, 06:06 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Fausto Melotti

1901 - 1986

Arabesque


signed

brass

Executed in 1971


This work is registered in the Fondazione Fausto Melotti, Milan, under no. 1971 23.


(firmato

ottone

Eseguito nel 1971


L'opera è registrata presso la Fondazione Fausto Melotti, Milan, under no. 1971 23.)


cm 72x81x27,5; inches 28.35 by 31.88 by 10.82

Galerie Alfred Schmela, Düsseldorf

Private Collection (Acquired from the above in 1975 - Ivi acquistato nel 1975)

Sotheby's London, Contemporary Day Sale, 2 July 2008, Lot 135

De Primi Fine Art SA, Lugano

Acquired from the above by the previous owner in 2009 (Ivi acquistato dal precedente proprietario nel 2009)

Thence by descent to the present owner in 2022 (Ivi acquisito dall'attuale proprietario nel 2022)


Düsseldorf, Galerie Alfred Schmela, Melotti, 1975, illustrated

Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Sammlung Helga und Walther Lauffs - Amerikanische und europäische Kunst der sechziger und siebziger Jahre, 1983-84, n. 237

Germano Celant, Melotti, Catalogo generale, Tomo primo, Sculture 1929-1972, Milan 1994, p. 285, n. 1971 23, illustrated