Alighiero Boetti
Le parole che uccidono
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Alighiero Boetti
1940 - 1994
Le parole che uccidono
titled (upper edge)
ballpoint pen on paper laid down on canvas
99 by 70.2 cm. 39 by 27⅝ in.
framed: 109.5 by 81.4 cm. 43⅛ by 32 in.
Executed in 1981.
This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome, under no. 6810 and is acompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Private Collection, Europe
Christie's, London, 5 October 2018, lot 322
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Bergamo, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea; and Buenos Aires, Fundación Proa, Alighiero Boetti: Quasi Tutto, April - December 2004, p. 60, illustrated in colour; and p. 232, illustrated
Jean Christophe Amman, Alighiero Boetti, Catalogo Generale, Vol. III, Milan 2015, no. 1370, p. 135, illustrated in colour