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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 7, 2017 | Christie's | London | Thinking Italian | 108 | $****** - ****** | Uomo che guarda un negativo (Man Looking at a Negative) |
sculpture
229.9 x 120 cm (90.5 x 47.25 in)
painted tissue paper on polished stainless steel
signed, titled and dated 'Pistoletto 1967 -UOMO CHE GUARDA UN NEGATIVO-' (on the reverse)
Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris.
Kornblee Gallery, New York.
Harry N. Abrams Collection, New York.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
New York, Kornblee Gallery, Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1967.
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Young Italians, 1968, no. 32 (illustrated, unpaged). This exhibition later travelled to New York, Jewish Museum.
Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1976, p. 115, no. 111 (illustrated, p. 57, titled 'Alighiero Boetti che guarda un negativo in trasparenza').
Houston, Institute for the Arts, Rice Museum, Michelangelo Pistoletto – Mirror Works, 1979, p. 18, no. 7 (installation view illustrated, p.17).
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Michelangelo Pistoletto. From One to Many, 2010- 2011, p. 377, no. 44 (illustrated in colour, p.237, historical installation view illustrated, p. 236, titled ‘Alighiero Boetti che guarda un negativo’). This exhibition later travelled to Rome, MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo.
A. Boatto, Michelangelo Pistoletto - Dentro/Fuori lo specchio, Rome 1969, no. 43 (illustrated, unpaged, titled ‘Uomo con negativo’).
Pistoletto, exh. cat., Florence, Forte del Belvedere, 1984, no. 81 (illustrated, p. 87, titled ‘Alighiero Boetti che guarda un negativo in trasparenza’).
signed, titled and dated 'Pistoletto 1967 -UOMO CHE GUARDA UN NEGATIVO-' (on the reverse)
painted tissue paper on polished stainless steel
90½ x 47¼in. (230 x 120cm.)
Executed in 1967
