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Property from a Prestigious Private Collection

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Il Cordone

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Michelangelo Pistoletto

b. 1933


Il Cordone

signed, titled, dated 1970 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)

painted tissue paper on polished stainless steel

230 by 120 cm. 90½ by 47¼ in.

Executed in 1970.

Collection of Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, Rome (acquired directly from the artist)

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 2000)

Sotheby’s, London, 17 October 2014, lot 15 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Vitalità del negativo nell’arte italiana 1960/70, November 1970 - January 1971, n.p., illustrated

Rome, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese and Florence, Centro Di Edizioni, Contemporanea, November 1973 - February 1974, p. 194, illustrated

Richard Peduzzi, Daniela Lancioni, Jacqueline Risset, et al., Incontri…dalla Collezione di Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, Rome 2003, pp. 133 and 247, illustrated