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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Lot 170

Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)

Il progressivo svanir della consuetudine (The Progressive Disappearance of Habit)

Closed7 March 2018

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GBP 56,250

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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Il progressivo svanir della consuetudine (The Progressive Disappearance of Habit)
signed 'alighiero e boetti' (on the overlap)
embroidery on canvas
13 x 13 3/8in. (33 x 33.8cm.)
Executed in 1988

Galleria Mara Coccia, Rome.
Private Collection, Italy.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘I am interested in primary matters, such as the alphabet, the map, the newspaper, among other things owing to the spring which thus tautens between order and disorder.’
–Alighiero Boetti