Details
Piero Manzoni (1933-1963)
Linea di lunghezza infinita (Line of Infinite Length)
signed and dated 'PIERO MANZONI '60' (on the label)
wood cylinder and paper label
5 7/8 x 2in. (15 x 5cm.)
Executed in 1960
Provenance
Galleria BLU, Milan.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's Milan, 26 May 2005, lot 259.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
G. Celant, Piero Manzoni Catalogo generale, Milan 1975, no. 47 I (illustrated, p. 187).
F. Battino and L. Palazzoli, Piero Manzoni Catalogue Raisonné, Milan 1991, no. 978 BM (illustrated, p. 441).
Piero Manzoni: Line Drawings, exh. cat., Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1995, no. 7 (illustrated p. 13).
G. Celant, Piero Manzoni Catalogo generale, vol. II, Milan 2004, no. 560 (illustrated, p. 474).
Exhibited
Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Bilderstreit. Widerspruch, Einheit and Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960, 1989, no. 427 (illustrated, p. 389).
Ohio, The Ohio State University Wexner Center for the Arts, Art in Europe and America: the 1950s and 1960s, 1990 (illustrated, p. 30).
Granada, Hospital Real, Tierra de Nadie, 1992 (illustrated, p. 59).
Esslingen, Galerie der Stadt, Zero Italien, 1995-1996 (illustrated, p. 128).
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Piero Manzoni 1933-1963, 2014, no. 54 (illustrated in colour, p. 160).
Marcon, Padiglione delle Arti, Around Zero, 2014 (illustrated, p. 98).
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.
Sale room notice
Please note this lot is withdrawn from sale.
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