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)