Live Auction 6248The Italian Sale
Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Lot 103

Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)

Oggi sedicesimo giorno dell'ottavo mese dell'anno 1988

Closed11 October 2012

Price Realised

GBP 157,250

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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Oggi sedicesimo giorno dell'ottavo mese dell'anno 1988
dated '16 Agosto 1988' (on the overlap)
embroidery on canvas
43 3/8 x 45 3/8in. (110 x 115cm.)
Executed in 1988

Matteo Boetti Collection, Rome.
Private Collection, Rome.

Specialist note

'I am interested in primary matters, such as the alphabet, the map, the newspaper, among other things owing to the spring which thus tautens between order and disorder. There is an exact order innate in each and every thing, even if it manifests in a disorderly manner.' Alighiero Boetti (L. Rolf, Alighiero Boetti: mettere al mondo il mondo, Cantz, 1998, p. 29.)