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Details

Agostino Bonalumi (b. 1935)
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signed 'Bonalumi' (on the reverse)
vinyl tempera and shaped canvas
35 x 45 ¾in. (89 x 116cm.)
Executed in 1988

Provenance

Galleria Blu, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Further details

This work is registered in the Archivio Bonalumi, Milan under no. 88-003.

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Lot Essay

‘With his Extroflexions, Bonalumi succeeded in making artistic creations that are, in the strongest sense of the terms, identical autonomous objects, factually given and formally self-contained, encompassing space, colour, light and shadow, without making them fictive, illusionary depictions. At the same time, though, these objects are also beautiful in an ideal sense: they are of such untainted perfection that they approach the absolute’
(K. Wolbert, quoted in ‘Agostino Bonalumi’, in Agostino Bonalumi, exh. cat., Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, 2003, p. 22).

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