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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)

Venticinque per venticinque seicentoventicinque

Closed1 July 2010

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GBP 163,250

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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Venticinque per venticinque seicentoventicinque
dated 'Quinto Giorno DEL Settimo mese Del 1988' (on the overlap)
embroidery on canvas mounted on panel
44 7/8 x 40 7/8in. (114.3 x 104cm.)
Executed in 1988

Private Collection, Rome.

Specialist note

This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome, under no. 5941.



"Twenty-five is the square of the holy number five and is therefore also the centre of the magical squares. It consists of the sum of the numbers 1+3+5+7+9 and therefore contains all the holy numbers which can be used in magic"

(Boetti quoted in A. Boetti, Alighiero Boetti: Mettere al Mondo il Mondo, Frankfurt 1998, p. 117)