Contemporary Day Auction, including Works on Paper from the Duerckheim Collection

Contemporary Day Auction, including Works on Paper from the Duerckheim Collection

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Arnaldo Pomodoro

1926 - 2025


Sfera

incised with the artist's signature, titled, dated 67 and numbered 2/2 (on the edge of the base)

bronze with gold patina, on artist's Plexiglass base

diameter: 81 cm. 31⅞ in.

base: 6.8 by 80.2 by 80.2 cm. 2⅝ by 31½ by 31½ in.

overall: 87.8 by 81 by 81 cm. 34½ by 31⅞ by 31⅞ in.

Executed in 1967, this work is number 2 from an edition of 2, plus 1 artist's proof.

Marlborough Gallery, Rome

The Schulhof Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1972)

Christie's, New York, 15 November 2012, lot 183 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Verona, Studio La Città, Arnaldo Pomodoro, November - December 1970 (another example exhibited)

Berkeley, University Art Museum; San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego; Portland, Portland Art Museum, Austin and travelling, Arnaldo Pomodoro: Sculpture 1960-1970, May 1970 - July 1971, no. 19 (another example exhibited)

Palermo, Galleria Quattro Venti, Arnaldo Pomodoro, March 1971 (another example exhibited)

Munich, Galerie Stangl, Arnaldo Pomodoro ‘72, May - July 1972, no. 5 (another example exhibited)

Florence Berkman, "Pomodoro's Sculptures at the Atheneum Really Not So Strange," Hartford Times, 9 May 1971, illustrated

Flaminio Gualdoni, ed., Arnaldo Pomodoro: Catalogo ragionato della scultura, Vol. II, Milan 2007, no. 438, p. 536, illustration of another example

Carolina Pasti, A Life with Artists: Hannelore and Rudolph Schulhof, New York 2016, p. 111, illustration in colour of another example