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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 30, 2022 | Phillips | London | 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 10 | $****** - ****** | Ragazza in minigonna / Ragazza seduta per terra |
sculpture
230.2 x 120 x 2.2 cm (90.63 x 47.24 x 0.87 in)
painted tissue paper with graphite and coloured pencil on polished stainless steel
Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris
The Helga and Walther Lauffs Collection, Germany (acquired from the above in 1968 at documenta 4, Kassel)
David Zwirner, New York (acquired from the above in 2008)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2010
Turin, Piper Pluriclub, La fine di Pistoletto , 6 - 9 March 1967
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Michelangelo Pistoletto , 4 April - 7 May 1967, no. 40 (titled as Jeune fille assise par terre )
Cologne, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Michelangelo Pistoletto , May 1967 (illustrated on the exhibition invitation)
Paris, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Michelangelo Pistoletto , 12 December 1967 - 13 January 1968
London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Obsessive Image 1960-1968 , 10 April - 29 May 1968, no. 75, p. 65 (illustrated; titled as Jeune fille en mini-jupe )
Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Orangerie, Karlsruhe and Galerie an der Schönen Aussicht, documenta 4 , 27 June - 6 October 1968, vol. I, no. 3, pp. 234-235 (illustrated; Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, 1967 installation view illustrated; titled as Donna seduta in mini gonna )
Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, on loan 1968 - 2008
Krefeld, Museum Haus Esters, Die Sammlung Lauffs I , 4 March - 29 April 2001, pp. 5, 15 (illustrated; titled as Ragazza in minigonn a )
New York, David Zwirner and Zwirner & Wirth; Zurich, Hauser & Wirth, Selections from the Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs , 1 May - 26 July 2008
New York, David Zwirner and Zwirner & Wirth, Minimal and Conceptual Art in Europe from the Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs , 5 November 2008 - 7 January 2009
Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art; Rome, MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956-1974 , 2 November 2010 - 26 June 2011, no. 46, pp. 151, 240-241, 377 (illustrated)
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Red over Yellow: A Selection from a Private Collection , 21 June - 2 December 2017, pp. 22, 24, 87, 64 (illustrated, p. 25)
Paul Wember, Kunst in Krefeld: Öffentliche und private Kunstsammlungen , Cologne, 1973, pl. 105, pp. 171, 241 (illustrated; titled as Ragazza in minigonna )
Gerhard Storck, Sammlung Helga and Walther Lauffs im Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld: Amerikanische und europaische Kunst der sechziger und siebziger Jahre , Krefeld, 1983, no. 271, p. 236
Michelangelo Pistoletto , exh. cat., Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, 2000 (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1967 installation view illustrated, p. 32)
Marco Farano, Maria Cristina Mundici and Maria Teresa Roberto, Michelangelo Pistoletto. Il varco dello specchio. Azioni e collaborazioni , Turin, 2005, p. 64 (Piper Pluriclub, Turin, 1967 installation view illustrated, p. 15)
Alexandra Whitney, ed., The Helga and Walther Lauffs Collection. Volume I , Göttingen, 2009, p. 106 (illustrated, p. 107; Zwirner & Wirth, New York, 2008 installation view illustrated, p. 108)
Alexandra Whitney, ed., The Helga and Walther Lauffs Collection. Volume II , Göttingen, 2009, no. 206, fig. 13, pp. 56, 168-169 (illustrated; Piper Pluriclub, Turin, 1967 installation view illustrated; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1967 installation view illustrated; Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, 1967 installation view illustrated)
Alain Elkann, La Voce di Pistoletto , Milan, 2013, p. 149 (illustrated)
painted tissue paper with graphite and coloured pencil on polished stainless steel
230.2 x 120 x 2.2 cm (90 5/8 x 47 1/4 x 0 7/8 in.)
Executed in 1962-1967.
