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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 11, 2012 | Christie's | London | The Italian Sale | 74 | $****** - ****** | Metrocubo D'infinito (Cubic Meter Of Infinity) |
sculpture
120 x 120 x 120 cm (47.24 x 47.24 x 47.24 in)
mirror and rope
Acquired directly from the artist in 1971 and thence by descent to the present owner.
Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Vitalità del negativo nell'arte italiana 1960/70, 1970-1971 (illustrated, unpaged). Graz, Grazer Kunstverein, Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1988 (illustrated, p. 34). New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Michelangelo Pistoletto: Division and Multiplication of the Mirror, 1988 (illustrated, p. 86). Venice, Palazzo Querini Dubois, Minimalia, Da Giacomo Balla a.., 1997-1998. This exhibition later travelled to Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni. New York, MoMA PS1, Minimalia. An Italian Vision in 20th Century Art, 1999-2000. Rome, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, Incontri dalla collezione di Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, 2003.
Oggetti in meno, exh. cat., Turin, Studio of Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1966. Arte Povera, exh. cat., Bologna, Galleria de' Foscherari, 1968. Play, exh. cat., Turin, Deposito d'Arte Presente, 1968. Elf Italiener heute, exh. cat., Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall, 1971 (another variation illustrated, p. 58). Arte povera. 13 Italienische Kunstler, exh. cat., Munich, Kunstvverein, 1971 (another variation illustrated, p. 58). Experimenta 4, exh. cat., Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1971. M. Valsecchi, 'Un "happening" che risucchia il pubblico', in Il Tempo, Rome, 2 January 1971. Michelangelo Pistoletto, exh. cat., Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 1976, no. 44 and 112a-c (another variation illustrated, pp. 23 and 58-59). Michelangelo Pistoletto, exh. cat., Naples, Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortez, 1977. Pistoletto in Berlin: Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1962-1978, exh. cat., Berlin, Nationalgalerie, 1978 (another variation illustrated, unpaged). Michelangelo Pistoletto, exh. cat., Aalborg, Nordjyllands, 1978, no. 37. Michelangelo Pistoletto: Mirror-Works, exh. cat., Houston, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, 1979, no. 12 (another variation illustrated, p. 16). Identité Italienne: l'art en Italie depuis 1959, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1981 (another variation illustrated, p. 339). In Labirinto, exh. cat., Milan, Palazzo della Permanente, 1981, no. 3 (another variation illustrated, p. 121; incorrectly dated 1966-1976). Pistoletto, exh. cat., Florence, Forte di Belvedere, 1984, no. 50 (another variation illustrated, p. 59). Del Arte Povera a 1985, exh. cat., Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez and Palacio de Cristal, 1985, no. 128 (another variation illustrated, p. 143). The Knot: Arte Povera at P.S.1, exh. cat., New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 1985 (another variation illustrated, p. 224). G. Celant, Arte Povera. Storie e protagonisti, Milan 1985, no. 146 (another variation illustrated, p. 148). B. Corà, Michelangelo Pistoletto: lo spazio della riflessione nell'arte, Ravenna 1986, no. 48 (another variation illustrated, p. 92). Pistoletto: Skulptur/Malerei, exh. cat., Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, 1986. Michelangelo Pistoletto, Baden-Baden, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1988, no. 8 (another variation illustrated in colour, p. 129). Michelangelo Pistoletto: Oggetti in meno, exh. cat., Bern, Kunsthalle, 1989 (another variation illustrated, p. 57). G. Celant, Arte Povera, Basel 1989, no. 22 (another variation illustrated, p. 239). L'Arquitectura del mirall: Pistoletto, Barcelona, Centro d'Art Santa Monica, 1990 (another variation illustrated, p. 16 and illustrated in colour, p. 17). Aktuelle Kunst Europas. Sammlung Centre Pompidou, exh. cat., Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, 1990 (another variation illustrated, p. 19). Michelangelo Pistoletto, exh. cat., Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1990, no. 44 (another variation illustrated, p. 92). Arte Povera 1971 und 20 Jahre danach, exh. cat., Munich, Kunstverein München, 1991, no. 1-2 (another variation illustrated, pp. 18-19). Oggetti in meno 1965-1966, exh. cat., London, Camden Arts Centre, 1991. Michelangelo Pistoletto: gli oggetti in meno, lo specchio, la gabbia Die Minus - Objekte, Spiegel, Gitter, exh. cat., Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, 1992 (another variation illustrated in colour, p. 44). Manifeste 4: l'Arte Povera, antiform, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1992 (another variation illustrated in colour, p. 56). Pistoletto e la fotografia, exh. cat., Porto, Fundação de Serralves, 1993 (another variation illustrated, p. 55). Distruzione/Costruzione, exh. cat., Warsaw, Centrum Ujazdowki, 1993. 33 ans dans le miroir, exh. cat., Paris, Galerie Durand Dessert, 1994. Pistoletto through the Mirror, exh. cat., Seoul, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, 1994 (another variation illustrated in colour, p. 43). Michelangelo Pistoletto, exh. cat., Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, 1995, no. 12 (another variation illustrated in colour, p. 23). Michelangelo Pistoletto: Memoria, intelligentia, praevidentia, exh. cat., Munich, Lenbachhaus, 1996 (another variation illustrated in colour, p. 69). Politics-Poetics: Documenta X, exh. cat., Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, 1997 (another variation illustrated in colour, p. 175). C. Papoulias, Hypertopos. Two architectural projects, Riehen 1998 (another variation illustrated, p. 25). 50 especés d'espaces, exh. cat., Marseille, Centre de la Veille Charité, 1998 (another variation illustrated, pp. 42-43). Minimal Maximal : Die Minimal Art und ihr Einfluss auf die internationale Kunst der 90er Jahre Minimal Art and Its influence on International Art of the 1990s, exh. cat., Bremen, Neues Museum Weserburg, 1998-1999 (another variation illustrated in colour, p. 197). C. Christov-Bakargiev (ed.), Arte Povera, London 1999 (installation view of another variation illustrated, p. 66). Materiais de Construção/Building Material, exh. cat., Lisbon, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1999 (another variation illustrated, p. 21). N. Bätzner, Arte Povera. Zwischen Ereignis: Paolini, Pistoletto, Kounellis, Norberg 2000 (another variation illustrated, p. 152). Quartett. August 1968 September 2000, Baldessari, Kabakov, Kosuth, Pistoletto, exh. cat., Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, 2000 (another variation illustrated in colour, unpaged). Michelangelo Pistoletto, Io sono l'altro, exh. cat., Turin, Palazzina della Società delle Belle Arti e Castello di Rivoli, 2000 (another variation illustrated, p.86). Michelangelo Pistoletto, exh. cat., Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2000-2001 (installation views illustrated in colour, p. 76 and 79). Pistoletto - Codice Inverso, exh. cat., Perugia, various exhibition spaces, 2001 (another variation illustrated in colour, pp. 97-101 and 124). Continenti di tempo Continents de temps Continents of time: Michelangelo Pistoletto, exh. cat., Lyon, Musée d'Art Contemporain, 2001, no. 13 (another variation illustrated in colour, p. 82). Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, 1962-1972, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 2001-2002, no. 127 (installations view illustrated, p. 13; illustrated in colour, p. 311;). Arte Povera: Art from Italy, 1967-2002, exh. cat., Sidney, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002 (another variation illustrated in colour, p. 110). La poetica dell'Arte Povera, exh. cat., Magdeburg, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, 2003, no. 88 (another variation illustrated, p. 120). Incontri dalla collezione di Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, exh. cat., Rome, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, 2003 (another variation illustrated in colour, pp. 91 and 246). Farano, Marco, M. C. Mundici and M. T. Roberto, Michelangelo Pistoletto: il varco dello specchio; azioni e collaborazioni, 1967-2004, Turin 2005 (another variation illustrated in colour, p. 174). L'Immagine del vuoto: una linea di ricerca nell'arte in Italia, 1958-2006 The Image of the Void: An Investigation on Italian Art, 1958-2006, exh. cat., Lugano, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, 2006-2007, no. 8 (another variation illustrated in colour, p. 69). Michelangelo Pistoletto, exh. cat., Nice, Le Musée d'Art Moderne e d'Art Contemporain, 2007 (another variation illustrated in colour, p. 118-119). Theater without Theater, exh. cat., Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani, 2007. Michelangelo Pistoletto. Mirror Paintings, exh. cat., London, Simon Lee Gallery, 2007-2008 (installation views illustrated, p. 69 and illustrated in colour, p. 100). Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008, exh. cat., Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 2008-2009 (another variation illustrated in colour, pp. 194-195, and illustrated, p. 305). Time and Place: Milano-Torino 1958-1968, exh. cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet, 2008 (another variation illustrated in colour, p. 134). Costanti del Classico nell'arte del XX e XXI secolo, exh. cat., Catania, Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino Palazzo Valle, 2009 (another variation illustrated, pp. 292-293). Twenty Five, exh. cat., New York, Luhring Augustine, 2010. Measuring the World. Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art, Graz, Kunsthaus Graz, 2011. Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956-1974, exh. cat., Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, no. 96, 2011 (another variation illustrated in colour, p. 306; installation views illustrated, pp. 74 and 368). Arte Povera 2011, exh. cat., various locations, 2011-2012 (installation views of another variation illustrated, pp. 95 and 509).
