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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 28, 2023 | Christie's | London | 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale | 26 | $****** - ****** | Sacco SP 1 |
paintings
101.9 x 74.9 cm (40.13 x 29.5 in)
oil and burlap on canvas
signed, titled and dated ‘Burri 56 SACCO' (on the reverse)
The Artist.
Professor Raimondo Bariatti Collection, Milan.
Galleria Lorenzelli, Milan.
Galleria Blu, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 2000s.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Paintings by Alberto Burri , 1957, no. 20 (titled "Sacco"). This exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago; Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery and San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art.
São Paolo, Museu de Arte Moderna, Artistas Italianos de Hoje, na 5 a Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo - Brasil , 1959, no. 21.
Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna, Burri, Somaini, Vespignani. Três artistas italianos premiados na 5 a Bienal de São Paulo , 1960, no. 8.
Milan, Toninelli Arte Moderna, Afro Burri Marino , 1965, no. 3 (illustrated, unpaged).
Bologna, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, L'Informale in Italia , 1983, p. 306, no. 158 (illustrated in colour, p. 221).
Parma, Galleria d'Arte Niccoli, Alberto Burri la pittura come materia vivente opere dal 1949 al 1966 , 1993-1994, p. 50 (illustrated in colour, p. 51).
Aix-en-Provence, Galerie d'Art du Conseil Général des Bouches-du-Rhône, Giorgio Morandi, Marino Marini, Alberto Burri, Zoran Music. Quatre temps, quatre aspects de l'art italien au XX e siècle, 2000, p. 16 (illustrated in colour, p. 60).
Luino, Palazzo Verbania Civico Centro di Cultura, Burri & Palazzoli. La Santa Alleanza , 2001, p. 82 (illustrated in colour with incorrect orientation, p. 83). This exhibition later travelled to Milan, Galleria Blu.
Rome, Museo del Corso, Dal Futurismo all'Astrattismo: Un percorso d'avanguardia nell'arte Italiana del primo Novecento , 2002, p. 222, no. 73 (illustrated in colour with incorrect orientation, p. 223).
Milan, Galleria Blu, Apollo e Dioniso: una riconciliazione impossibile. Attraverso l'informale , 2006 (illustrated in colour).
Milan, Triennale di Milano, Alberto Burri , 2008-2009, p. 228, no. 10 (illustrated in colour with incorrect orientation, p. 79).
C. Brandi, Burri , Rome 1963, no. 191 (illustrated, p. 204).
A. Sala, ‘I sacchi “dolorosi” di Alberto Burri', in Il Corriere della Sera , 11 February 1979.
A. Sala, ‘I sacchi di Alberto Burri', in Studio Marconi , vol. 10, 22 March 1979 (illustrated, p. 42; titled "Sacco").
R. Barilli, ‘I fiori dell'Informale', in Arte , no. 132, July-August 1983, p. 72 (detail illustrated in colour with incorrect orientation, pp. 3 and 73).
Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini (ed.), Burri: Contributi al Catalogo Sistematico , Città di Castello 1990, pp. 70, 483 and 543, nos. 269 and 56.8 (illustrated in colour with incorrect orientation, p. 71; titled "Sacco").
F. Tedeschi, ‘Alberto Burri - Galleria Niccoli', in Terzo Occhio , vol. XIX, no. 4, December 1993, p. 64.
C. Cerritelli, ‘Alberto Burri. A distanza di quarant'anni i “sacchi” ripropongono la loro verità visiva', in Nuova Meta parole & immagini , vol. VIII, no. 1, January-March 1994, p. 17 (detail illustrated).
R. Ferrario, ‘Alberto Burri - Niccoli', in Flash Art , no. 181, February 1994, p. 100.
L. Vergine, L'arte in trincea. Lessico della tendenze artistiche 1960-1990 , Milan 1996 (illustrated with incorrect orientation, p. 7).
M. Corgnati, ‘Burri & Palazzoli un “sacco” amici nel nome dell'arte', in La Repubblica , 16 June 2001 (illustrated, p. 18).
G. Simongini, ‘Primavera fuori stagione', in Ars , October 2001 (detail illustrated, p. 16).
A. Paolucci, Mille anni di arte italiana, Florence 2006, no. 145 (illustrated in colour with incorrect orientation, pp. 195 and 238).
L. Lorenzoni, ‘Burri e la Biennale di Venezia 1952-1988', in Alberto Burri Opera al Nero Cellotex 1972-1992, Milan 2012, p. 214.
E. Crispolti, "Burri è stato informale?", in Materia Forma e Spazio nella pittura di Alberto Burri , Perugia 2015, no. 13 (illustrated in colour, p. 28).
B. Corà (ed.), Burri: General Catalogue, Painting, 1945-1957 , Volume 1 , Città di Castello 2015, p. 309, no. 542 (illustrated, p. 230).
B. Corà (ed.), Burri: General Catalogue Chronological Repertory, 1945-1994 , Volume VI , Città di Castello 2015, no. i.568 (illustrated, p. 102).
ALBERTO BURRI (1915-1995)
Sacco SP 1
signed, titled and dated ‘Burri 56 SACCO' (on the reverse)
oil and burlap on canvas
40 1/8 x 29 1/2in. (102 x 75cm.)
Executed in 1956
