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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Lot 171 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT BELGIAN COLLECTION

Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)

Lavoro postale (Permutazione)

Closed12 February 2016

Price Realised

GBP 76,900

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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Lavoro postale (Permutazione)
each: signed 'Alighiero Boetti' (on the reverse)
(i) numbered 'LA PRIMA / LA PREMIERE / THE FIRST' (on the reverse)
(xxii) numbered 'L'ULTIMA / LA DERNIERE / THE LAST' (on the reverse)
twenty-two stamped envelopes (afghan stamps)
each: 4 1/8 x 9 ¼in. (10.5 x 23.5cm.)
Executed in 1972

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner circa 1972.

Specialist note

‘The postal system , which Boetti was among the first to use, was essential. He enjoyed himself immensely with art turned into the relationship between sender and recipient’.

(A. Sauzeau, quoted in Alighiero Boetti catalogue raisonné, Milan 2012, p. 22)