拍品 96
  • 96

ETTORE SOTTSASS | Unique Sculpture

估價
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
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描述

  • Ettore Sottsass
  • Unique Sculpture
  • signed SOTTSASS '81
  • painted wood, glazed porcelain; together with a letter of expertise from Pier Carlo Bontempi
  • 36.4 x 31.7 diameter cm (14  1/4  x 12  1/2  in.)
  • 1981

來源

Private Collection, Belgium

Condition

Overall in very good condition. The painted surfaces with minor scattered scuffs, nicks and chips throughout. Minor air bubbles to the painted surfaces, inherent in production. The upper edge of the cylinder with scattered minor chips and rubbing, revealing the wood below, the longest measuring approximately 3.5 cm. The same edge with a minor shallow indentation. The upper edge of the base with minor scattered chips and rubbing, revealing the wood below. The centre of the base underneath the cylinder is unpainted. The egg has been inspected under ultra violet light and it appears that no visible restoration has been undertaken. The outer glaze with a few fine hairline cracks, not visually disruptive and consistent with age. A unique work by the Artist on the cusp of his formation of the Memphis group.
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拍品資料及來源

In 1979 the radical Alchimia group, founded by Alessandro Mendini in 1976, opened ‘Alchimia-Memorie e Luoghi del XX Secolo’, the first gallery in Europe dedicated to avant garde design. The gallery organised exhibitions, installations and performances which included furniture and objects by designers in the group: Alessandro Mendini, Andrea Branzi, Lapo Binazzi, Trix and Robert Haussmann, Anna Gili, Ettore Sottsass and others. In the spring of 1981, the gallery held an exhibition in which designers were invited to submit works around the theme of the egg. The present lot, a unique work, was from this exhibition. Sottsass would go on to found the eponymous Memphis group the same year. Sotheby's would like to thank Pier Carlo Bontempi for his assistance with the cataloguing of this work.