Live Auction 6248The Italian Sale
Mario Schifano (1934-1998)
Lot 112 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE GRAZIELLA LONARDI BUONTEMPO

Mario Schifano (1934-1998)

Fantasia del paziente naturale (Fantasy of the Natural Patient)

Closed11 October 2012

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GBP 61,250

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Mario Schifano (1934-1998)
Fantasia del paziente naturale (Fantasy of the Natural Patient)
enamel on canvas, in three parts
each: 88 3/8 x 43 3/8in. (224.5 x 110cm.)
overall: 88 3/8 x 129 7/8in. (224.5 x 330cm.)
Executed in 1970

Acquired directly from the artist in the early 1970s and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

My husband Michael Sonnabend and I met Mario Schifano in Rome in 1960 through Plinio de Martiis and we were very impressed with his paintings I think it announced many things that came after Pop Art - Minimalism and Conceptual Painting...We proposed to Mario Schifano to represent him in the gallery we intended to open and started paying him a monthly stipend and buying works (I. Sonnabend quoted in G. Lonardi, 'Schifano: between Graziella Lonardi and Ileana Sonnabend, Mario Schifano. Per Esempio, exh. cat., Palazzo Rancani Arroni, Spoleto, 1998, p. 43).