Live Auction 7757The Italian Sale
Christie’s roundel
Lot 54

Francesco Clemente (b. 1952)

Paradigm

Closed16 October 2009

Price Realised

GBP 67,250

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Francesco Clemente (b. 1952)
Paradigm
acrylic on canvas
82 x 56in. (208.3 x 142.2cm.)
Painted in 1988

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Specialist note


Inside I am the other of a self,
who feels a presence always close at hand,

one side or the other, knows another one
unlocks the door and quickly enters in.

Either as or, we live a common person.
Two is still one. It cannot live apart.


(Francesco Clemente, 'Poem for Paradigm', reproduced in Francesco Clemente, exh. cat., New York, 1999, p. 203)