Live Auction 1175The Italian Sale
Pietro Consagra (1920-2005)
Lot 96 PROPERTY FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION

Pietro Consagra (1920-2005)

Muro del Suono

Closed18 October 2013

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GBP 68,500

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Pietro Consagra (1920-2005)
Muro del Suono
incised with the artist's signature and date 'Consagra 56' (lower right)
bronze
29 7/8 x 18½ x 2in. (76 x 47 x 5cm.)
Executed in 1956, this work is number
two from an edition of two

Galerie de France, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1960.

Specialist note

'...it is not by chance that this sculpture, which is almost an allegory of the condition of modern man confronted by reality, retains the harshness of the machine or the engine of the manufactured product. But it is a machine jammed by a sort of fatality, which has fused the bits, one to the another, welding them together, making a compact mass, barely interrupted by cracks, fractures, unexpected lacerations'.
G. C. Argan, Text with no title, n.p., in Consagra, exh. cat., Bruxelles, 1958.