Live Auction 7992The Italian Sale
Pietro Consagra (1920-2005)
Lot 88

Pietro Consagra (1920-2005)

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Closed14 October 2011

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GBP 73,250

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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.

Specialist note

"...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..."