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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Lot 231

Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)

Una parola al vento due parole al vento tre parole al vento 100 parole al vento (A word to the wind, two words to the wind, three words to the wind, one hundred words to the wind)

Closed1 July 2015

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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Una parola al vento due parole al vento tre parole al vento 100 parole al vento (A word to the wind, two words to the wind, three words to the wind, one hundred words to the wind)
signed ‘alighiero e boetti‘ (on the overlap)
embroidery on board
31 ½ x 9 ½in. (89 x 24cm.)
Executed in 1989

Pio Monti Arte Contemporanea, Rome.
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1990).
Anon. sale, Christie’s Milan, 23 November 2011, lot 66.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome, under no. 6831.

‘Boetti sometimes opens up a new experience in which we read words diferently and appreciate the shapes and colours of letters, rather than just approaching language for its information and instrumental purposes’
(M. Godfrey, Alighiero e Boetti, London 2009, pp. 128-129).