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The Infinite Passion of Life: Works from the Italian Midcentury

Sergio Lombardo

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Auction Closed

February 26, 05:59 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Infinite Passion of Life: Works from the Italian Midcentury

Sergio Lombardo 

b. 1939


John Fitzgerald Kennedy

signed, titled and dated 1961-63 (on the reverse)

enamel on canvas 

70 ⅞ by 90 ½ in.

180 by 229.9 cm.

Executed in 1961-63.

Private Collection, Italy (acquired directly from the artist)

Private Collection, Milan (acquired by descent from the above)

Sotheby's Milan, 11 April 2019, lot 56 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Andrea Tugnoli, La Scuola di piazza del Popolo, Florence 2004, p. 103, illustrated in color

Marco Meneguzzo, "Sergio Lombardo: Fondazione Mudima," Artforum, January 2005, p. 190, illustrated

Miriam Mirolla, Sergio Lombardo. Tre serie pittoriche dal 1958 a oggi, Rome 2007, fig. 2, p. 51, illustrated

Andrea Tugnoli, Sergio Lombardo, Imola 2009, p. 44, illustrated

Rome, Galleria La Tartaruga, Tre Giovani Pittori Romani: Lombardo, Mambor, Tacchi, April 1963

Rome, Galleria La Tartaruga, Angeli, Bignardi, Festa, Fioroni, Kounellis, Lombardo, Mambor, Tacchi, March 1964

Rome, Università di Roma La Sapienz, Istituto di Storia dell'Arte, Generazioni a confronto, 1982

Florence, BZF Vallecchi and Milan, Fondazione Mudima, Sergio Lombardo “12 x 12” Mappe di Heawood, March - October 2004, p. 20, illustrated in color 

Chieti, Museo Archeologico Nazionale d’Abruzzo, Pop Art: la via italiana, Omaggio a Mimmo Rotella, 2007, no. 20, p. 73, illustrated in color and p. 119, illustrated