The Great Wonderful: 100 Years of Italian Art

New York 13 May 2015 4pm

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Alberto Burri
Combustione
1964
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 paper, plastic, acrylic, PVA glue, combustion on board
22 x 14 in. (56 x 35.6 cm)
Estimate
$400,000 - 600,000
SOLD FOR $485,000

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Exhibited
New York, Nahmad Contemporary, Strike(s), February 3 - March 3, 2014

Literature
Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini (ed.), Burri: Contributi al catalogo sistematico, Cittá di
Castello, 1990, no. 891, pp. 208-209, (illustrated)

Catalogue Essay
In 1943, Alberto Burri was captured while serving as a medic in the Italian army. He
was taken to an American POW camp in Texas and in these rather unlikely environs
began to paint. Populated by fissures, debris, and wreckage, his work suggests the
distress of its inception. Using an array of materials, often in violently arresting
combination, he created richly textured work which entices as it unsettles.

In the early 1950s, Burri created a series of sacchi, or sackcloth, works: burlap
compositions whose coarse and shredded materiality suggests the horrors of conflict.
Over the ensuing years, he began to develop a combustion technique, using torched
and burnt materials to create some of his most profoundly disquieting works. It is to
this period that the present Combustione belongs. The work carries the marks of
process, and is a document of both destruction and creation. There is much in the
work that suggests injury and scarring: the cracked surface, the white and black
palate, and the fissure from top to bottom. Yet there is a curious elegance here too.
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 Burri is often associated with Art Informel: a tradition of European abstract painting,
which emphasized an instinctive approach and resistance to formal strictures. Equally,
he has earned comparisons to American practitioners of Abstract Expressionism.
While his work undeniably relates to these traditions, he remains a distinctive and
singular artist, and as with much of Burri’s work, Combustione presents a powerful and
unique vision that combines the graceful with the alarming.

The Great Wonderful: 100 Years of Italian Art

New York 13 May 2015 4pm

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Franco Vimercati Franco Vimercati
Untitled (Zuppiera) Untitled (Cow)
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000 Estimate $5,000 - 6,000
SOLD FOR $15,000 SOLD FOR $8,750

3 4
Franco Vimercati Franco Vimercati
Untitled (Grattugia) Untitled (Spruzzatore)
Estimate $6,000 - 7,000 Estimate $6,000 - 7,000
SOLD FOR $10,000 SOLD FOR $8,125

5 6
Franco Vimercati Gianfranco Baruchello
Untitled (Ferro stiro) A Bouquet of Bloopers
Estimate $6,000 - 7,000 Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
SOLD FOR $11,250

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Vincenzo Agnetti
Photo-graffia
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
SOLD FOR $31,250
9 10
Pino Pascali
From the series Lettere (N)
Estimate $35,000 - 45,000
11
Paolo Scheggi
Intersuperficie curva bianca
Estimate $500,000 - 600,000
13
Giacomo Manzù
Cardinale in piedi
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
SOLD FOR $389,000
15
Giuseppe Uncini
Cementarmato
Estimate $120,000 - 180,000
SOLD FOR $173,000
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Ettore Colla
Meridiana Quadrata
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
SOLD FOR $43,750
Salvatore Emblema
Untitled/Fascia
Estimate $70,000 - 90,000
SOLD FOR $125,000
12
Giorgio Morandi
Natura Morta
Estimate $1,000,000 - 1,500,000
SOLD FOR $965,000
14
Alighiero Boetti
Mappa
Estimate $1,500,000 - 2,000,000
SOLD FOR $1,805,000
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Paolo Scheggi
Untitled
Estimate $50,000 - 60,000
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Mimmo Rotella Alberto Burri
Forze Armate Combustione
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000 Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
SOLD FOR $485,000

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Pier Paolo Calzolari
Untitled
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
SOLD FOR $725,000
20
Maurizio Cattelan
Untitled (Christmas '95)
Estimate $300,000 - 400,000

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Giuseppe Penone Valerio Adami
Idee di pietra Paesaggi Arabi
Estimate $1,500,000 - 2,500,000 Estimate $130,000 - 180,000
SOLD FOR $1,325,000 SOLD FOR $137,000

23 24
Lucio Fontana Piero Manzoni
Concetto spaziale, Attesa Achrome
Estimate $1,000,000 - 1,500,000 Estimate $500,000 - 700,000

25 26
Mario Schifano Fausto Melotti
Untitled La Pioggia
Estimate $180,000 - 200,000 Estimate $700,000 - 900,000
SOLD FOR $197,000
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Mario Ceroli Lucio Fontana
Mobili nella Valle Concetto spaziale, Teatrino
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000 Estimate $850,000 - 950,000

29 30
Enrico Castellani Domenico Gnoli
Superficie Bianca Shirt Collar Size 14 1/2
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000 Estimate $7,000,000 - 9,000,000
SOLD FOR $437,000 SOLD FOR $6,885,000

31 32
Fabio Mauri Agostino Bonalumi
Luther (from Wurm ein Gedanke einen R… Bianco
Estimate $80,000 - 120,000 Estimate $270,000 - 320,000
SOLD FOR $341,000

33 34
Gastone Novelli Giacomo Balla
9 Colori Linee di velocità
Estimate $80,000 - 100,000 Estimate $450,000 - 550,000
SOLD FOR $78,750 SOLD FOR $545,000

35 36
Valerio Adami Enrico Baj
Invito al Crash! Mary Augusta Arnold Ward, English Writer
Estimate $60,000 - 80,000 Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
SOLD FOR $62,500 SOLD FOR $100,000
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Jack Clemente Emilio Tadini
Untitled Le déjeuner sur l’herbe
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000 Estimate $30,000 - 40,000
SOLD FOR $32,500

39 40
Maurizio Cattelan Gianni Piacentino
Untitled Veicolo Marezzato
Estimate $200,000 - 300,000 Estimate $80,000 - 100,000
SOLD FOR $87,500

41 42
Turi Simeti Bruno Munari
Untitled Untitled
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000 Estimate $25,000 - 30,000
SOLD FOR $56,250 SOLD FOR $31,250

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Alessandro Pessoli Leoncillo Leonardi
Nest Head Untitled
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000 Estimate $50,000 - 70,000

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Marino Marini Salvatore Emblema
Piccolo miracolo Untitled
Estimate $700,000 - 1,000,000 Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
SOLD FOR $56,250
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Dadamaino Jack Clemente
Volume Untitled
Estimate $150,000 - 200,000 Estimate $8,000 - 10,000
SOLD FOR $173,000 SOLD FOR $9,375

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Vettor Pisani Margherita Manzelli
La Maria allo Scorrevole Lux
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000 Estimate $60,000 - 80,000
SOLD FOR $18,750

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Zoran Mušič Lorenzo Viani
Ritratto di Ida Il Filosofo Brissimisakis
Estimate $45,000 - 55,000 Estimate $80,000 - 120,000

53 54
Pietro Roccasalva Arturo Nathan
Intelligent Artifice(r) Palude
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000 Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
SOLD FOR $43,750

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Ettore Spalletti Jack Clemente
Colore, eco rossoazzuro Untitled
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Colore, eco rossoazzuro Untitled
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000 Estimate $8,000 - 10,000
SOLD FOR $87,500 SOLD FOR $10,625

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Giuseppe Gabellone Giuseppe Gabellone
Untitled (GG09 - 2721F) Untitled (GG09- 2719F)
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000 Estimate $10,000 - 15,000

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Giuseppe Desiato Elisa Sighicelli
Monumento effimero Untitled (Interim)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000 Estimate $8,000 - 10,000
SOLD FOR $5,000 SOLD FOR $30,000

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Emilio Prini Francesco Vezzoli
Foto con Intervento (Autoritratto) Tua (Portrait of Dolly Parton after Palma …
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000 Estimate $150,000 - 200,000
SOLD FOR $11,250 SOLD FOR $245,000

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Nuvolo (Giorgio Ascani) Renato Guttuso
Untitled Tetti di Palermo
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000 Estimate $120,000 - 150,000
SOLD FOR $43,750
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