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Fausto Melotti (1901-1986)
Lot 363

Fausto Melotti (1901-1986)

Contrappunto Piano

Closed7 October 2017

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GBP 56,250

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Fausto Melotti (1901-1986)
Contrappunto Piano
incised with the artist's signature and number 'Melotti 24/99' (extreme upper left edge)
brass
21 x 63 x 4 1/8in. (53.5 x 160 x 10.5cm.)
Executed in 1973, this work is number twenty-four from an edition of ninety-nine (from 1-20/99 measuring 48 x 140 x 10cm.; from 21-69/99 measuring 53.5 x 160 x 10.5cm.; from 70-99/99 measuring 62 x 180 x 12cm.) plus five artist's proofs

Private Collection, Turin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

'Music, the matrix of arts, is the paradigm of [the coexistence of space and time in a work of art], as it contains both these categories which, by their unification, give life to the universe (...) There is a structured musical space in harmony and a musical beat in the scansion of counterpoint: imitation, canon, variation, even the simple evolution of a melody.' FAUSTO MELOTTI