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Salvatore Scarpitta

Mas Tres

Auction Closed

November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Salvatore Scarpitta

1919 - 2007


Mas Tres

signed, titled and dated 1959 (on the stretcher); signed, titled and dated twice 1959 (on the reverse)

bandages, resin and metal on board 

29½ by 33¼ in.

74.9 by 84.5 cm.

Executed in 1958.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

Barbara Bertozzi Castelli, New York

Luxembourg & Dayan, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in March 2017)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Scott-Hanson Gallery, Sal Scarpitta, 1988

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Salvatore Scarpitta American Cycle 1958-1982, 1990

New York, Diane Brown Gallery, Off White, 1992

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Sal Scarpitta, 2012 - 2013

Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962,, no. 4, p. 128, illustrated in color

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Painting The Void, 1949-1962, February - June 2013, p. 128, illustrated in color 

Giorgio Di Genova, Storia dell'arte italiana del '900 - Generazione anni Dieci, Bologna, 1990, p. 262,

Luigi Sansone, Salvatore Scarpitta. Catalogue raisonné, Milan, 2005, no. 222, p. 167, illustrated