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Lot 3401 - A205 PostWar & Contemporary - Thursday, 22. June 2023, 02.00 PM

ALBERTO BURRI

(Città di Castello 1915–1995 Nice)
Untitled. 1950.
Tempera on firm paper.
Inscribed and dated by unknown hand on the reverse: Burri 50, also with the directional arrow.
6.1 × 8.6 cm.

With the certificate by the Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini, Collezione Burri, 23 September 1989. The work is recorded there under the archive number: 1082 411.

Also with certificate by Fondazione Burri, 29 September 1989, Città di Castello.

Provenance:
- Auction Finarte Milan, 22 June 1999, Lot 411.
- Purchased from the above by the present owner, since then private collection Switzerland.

Exhibition: Città di Castello 1950. Galleria dell'Angelo.

Literature: Corà, Bruno: Alberto Burri - General catalogue, Città di Castello 2015, no. 81 (with colour ill.).

"Beauty in art is beauty, whether it is a beautiful sack, or beautiful pulp, or a beautiful piece of wood or iron or whatever it is, it is the same, exactly the same." Alberto Burri


CHF 20 000 / 30 000 | (€ 20 620 / 30 930)