Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts
Helikon
Auction Closed
May 15, 11:51 PM GMT
Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts
Salvatore Scarpitta
1919 - 2007
Helikon
signed, titled and dated 1959 (on the reverse)
bandages and mixed media
45 by 64 by 6 in.
114.3 by 162.6 by 15.2 cm.
Executed in 1959.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Galleria Notizie, Turin
Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia
Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris (acquired from the above)
Sotheby’s Paris, 6 October 2005, lot 7 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Emilio Villa, "Dada coriphée à New York," Appia Antica, no. 2, January 1960, illustrated
David Whitney, Leo Castelli: Ten Years, New York 1967, n.p., illustrated (installed in New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, 1959)
Exh. Cat., Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Salvatore Scarpitta, 1977, p. 19, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Rome, The Murray and Isabella Rayburn Foundation, 1948-1964: an art exploration, 1993-94, p. 37, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Ferrara, Pallazo dei Diamanti, Roma 1950-59: Il rinnovamento della pittura italiana, 1995, p. 18, illustrated
Luigi Sansone, Salvatore Scarpitta: Catalogue Raisonné, Milan 2005, no. 235, pp. 170, 298, illustrated
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Work in Three Dimensions, October - September 1959
Los Angeles, Dwan Gallery, Salvatore Scarpitta, June - July 1961, no. 7
Turin, Galleria Notizie di Torino e dello Studio C di Brescia, Salvatore Scarpitta, May - June 1972, no. 3, illustrated
Rome, Galleria La Tartaruga, Salvatore, June 1976
Turin, Galleria Ippolito Simonis, Salvatore Scarpitta, November 1987, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, Corps Sublimes, November 2002 - January 2003
New York, Luxembourg & Dayan, Salvatore Scarpitta: 1956 - 1964, October - January 2017, illustrated (inside front cover)(with the artist installed in Rome, Galleria La Tartaruga, 1976), no. 8, p. 16, illustrated, p. 17 (text) and pp. 48-49, illustrated in color
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