Live Auction 1175The Italian Sale
Alberto Burri (1915-1995)
Lot 91

Alberto Burri (1915-1995)

Cretto

Closed18 October 2013

Price Realised

GBP 302,500

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Alberto Burri (1915-1995)
Cretto
signed and dated 'Burri 1974 (on the reverse)
acrovinyl on cellotex
12¼ x 17 3/8in.(30 x 42cm.)
Executed in 1974

A gift from the artist in 1974 by the previous owner and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

'The material is not hidden, but displayed; it is the reality of the material in its physicality, with its thickness and lumpiness that occupies the space of the picture'.
E. Geuna, in An Italian Revolution, New Poetics of colours, Matter and Space, exh. cat., Hauch of Venison, New York, 2012, p.9.