Beyond the Canvas: Pioneers of Italian Art from the Levett Collection
Pietro Consagra
Racconto del demonio n. 5
Auction Closed
March 5, 01:40 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Pietro Consagra
1920 - 2005
Racconto del demonio n. 5
incised with the artist's signature and dated 63 (lower left)
bronze with brown patina
85 by 62 by 16.5 cm. 33½ by 24⅜ by 6½ in.
Executed in 1963, this work is identified as number 2 from an unnumbered edition of 2.
Galleria Odyssia, New York
Perry and June Ottenberg, Philadelphia
Private Collection
Freeman's, Philadelphia, 8 May 2018, lot 82
Private Collection
Robilant+Voena, London
Acquired from the above in 2018 by the present owner
Milan, Galleria dell'Ariete, Consagra, June 1965, no. 12 (another cast exhibited)
Essen, Museum Folkwang and Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Twalf Italiaanse beeldhouwers, September 1965 - January 1966, no. 11, illustrated (another cast exhibited)
Palermo, Galleria Quattro Venti, Consagra, March 1973 (another cast exhibited)
Celano, Castello di Celano, Consagra a Celano, August 1981, no. 9 (another cast exhibited)
Rome, Galleria Il Millennio, I bronzi di Consagra, May - June 1989, p. 19 (another cast exhibited)
London, Robilant+Voena, Pietro Consagra: Frontal Sculpture 1947-1967, September - November 2018
Luca Massimo Barbero and Gabriella di Milla, Pietro Consagra: Catalogo ragionato delle sculture, Milan 2023, no. COL 21b, p. 261, illustrated in colour
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