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Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts

Salvatore Scarpitta

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