Una parola al vento due parole al vento tre parole al vento 100 parole al vento (A word to the wind, two words to the wind, three words to the wind, one hundred words to the wind)

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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Una parola al vento due parole al vento tre parole al vento 100 parole al vento (A word to the wind, two words to the wind, three words to the wind, one hundred words to the wind)
signed ‘alighiero e boetti‘ (on the overlap)
embroidery on board
31 ½ x 9 ½in. (89 x 24cm.)
Executed in 1989

Provenance

Pio Monti Arte Contemporanea, Rome.
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1990).
Anon. sale, Christie’s Milan, 23 November 2011, lot 66.
Acquired at the above sale 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.

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Lot Essay

This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome, under no. 6831.

‘Boetti sometimes opens up a new experience in which we read words diferently and appreciate the shapes and colours of letters, rather than just approaching language for its information and instrumental purposes’
(M. Godfrey, Alighiero e Boetti, London 2009, pp. 128-129).

Una parola al vento due parole al vento tre parole al vento 100 parole al vento (A word to the wind, two words to the wind, three words to the wind, one hundred words to the wind)

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