Vente aux enchères en direct 7992The Italian Sale
Pietro Consagra (1920-2005)
Lot 88

Pietro Consagra (1920-2005)

Colloquio impossibile (Impossible Conversation)

Fermé14 October 2011

Prix réalisé

GBP 73,250

Considering selling a similar item?

Discover its value with a complimentary estimate from our specialists.

Plus d'informations

Comment vendre

Pietro Consagra (1920-2005)
Colloquio impossibile (Impossible Conversation)
incised with the artist's signature and date 'Consagra 59-60' (lower right)
bronze
64 5/8 x 64 3/8 x 3 7/8in. (164 x 163.5 x 10cm.)
Executed in 1959-60, this work is unique

Acquired directly from the artist by the previous owner in the 1960s and thence by descent to the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

"...I saw frontality as a way of reshaping the pretensions with which sculpture had come to be burdened: religious and social pretensions, from the established order, or of an order still to come. I wanted a way of relieving sculpture of its status as symbolic presence, and of giving it a more direct, frontal relation, with you, for you - with the viewer..."