Lot 25
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Piero Manzoni (1933-1963)
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Piero Manzoni (1933-1963)

Achrome

Details
Piero Manzoni (1933-1963)
Achrome
signed, dedicated and dated 'Piero Manzoni 59 Per Sergio Dangelo' (on the stretcher)
kaolin on canvas
7 1/8 x 9 5/8in. (18 x 24.5cm.)
Executed in 1957
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by Sergio Dangelo, Milan (until 1977).
Lucio Amelio Gallery, Naples.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1977.
Literature
G. Celant, Piero Manzoni, Catalogo generale, Milan, 1975, no. 2 cg (illustrated p. 125, dated 1957).
F. Battino and L. Palazzoli, Piero Manzoni, catalogue raisonné, Milan, 1991, no. 379 BM (illustrated p. 283, dated 1958).
Special notice
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Lot Essay

"We absolutely cannot consider the picture as a space onto which to project our mental scenography. It is the arena of freedom in which we search for the discovery of our first images. Images which are as absolute as possible, which cannot be valued for that which they record, explain or express, but only for that which they are to be." (P. Manzoni, For the Discovery of a Zone of Images, 1957.)

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