Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts
Nero Cretto
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May 15, 11:51 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts
Alberto Burri
1915 - 1995
Nero Cretto
signed and dated 76 (on the reverse)
acrylic and PVA on Celotex, in artist’s frame
58 by 97 in.
147.3 by 246.5 cm.
Executed in 1976.
Private Collection, Los Angeles (by 1990)
Sperone Westwater, New York
Acquired from the above in June 2005 by the present owner
Nemo Sarteanesi, Burri: Contributi al Catalogo Sistematico, Città di Castello 1990, no. 1052, pp. 244-45, illustrated
Bruno Corà, ed., Burri: Catalogo generale, Pittura, 1958-1978, Vol. II, Città di Castello 2015, no. 1455, inv. no. i.7619, pp. 318-19, illustrated in color
Bruno Corà, ed., Burri: Catalogo generale, Chronological Repertory 1958-1994, Vol. VI, Città di Castello 2015, no. 1455, inv. no. i.7619, p. 212, illustrated in color
New York, Sperone Westwater Gallery, Against Nature, September 2000
New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash and Zurich, de Pury & Luxembourg, Alberto Burri, November 2007 - March 2008, no. 23, pp. 61-62, illustrated in color
Venice, Palazzo Grassi and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008, September 2008 - February 2010, p. 162, illustrated in color and p. 228 (text)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting, October 2015 - July 2016, pl. 73, pp. 132, 137 (text), fig. 141, p. 239, illustrated in color (detail) and p. 246-47, illustrated in color
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