Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
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
Jean Christophe Amman, Alighiero Boetti, Catalogo Generale, Vol. III, Milan 2015, no. 1370, p. 135, illustrated in colour
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