(i) Untitled (from the series Solchi d'Europa)(ii) Untitled(iii) Untitled (Paysage)(iv) Untitled(v) Untitled(vi) Untitled

Details

Enzo Cucchi (B.1949)
(i) Untitled (from the series Solchi d'Europa)
(ii) Untitled
(iii) Untitled (Paysage)
(iv) Untitled
(v) Untitled
(vi) Untitled
(i) charcoal on paper
(ii) ballpoint pen, India ink and brown ink on paper
(iii) ballpoint pen on card
(iv) ballpoint pen on paper
(v) ballpoint pen on paper
(vi) graphite and ink on paper
(i) 6 3/8 x 9 ½in. (16 x 24cm.)
(ii) 8 1/8 x 10in. (20.6 x 25.2cm.)
(iii) 4 ¼ x 6 ¼in. (10.9 x 15.9cm.)
(iv) 6 ¼ x 5in. (17 x 12.5cm.)
(v) 6 ½ x 9 3/8in. (16.6 x 23.9cm.)
(vi) 6 7/8 x 9 7/8in. (17.4 x 24.9cm.)
(6)Executed in 1986-1988

Provenance

(i) and (iii) Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1988.
(ii), (iv), (v) and (vi) Galerie B. Klüser, Munich
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989.

Literature

(ii), (iii), (v), (vi): Cucchi: Drawings 1975 - 1989, exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 1990 (illustrated, pp. 273, 278, 280, 294 and 312).

Exhibited

(i) and (iii): Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, La Disegna: Zeichnungen 1975-1988, 1988.

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Lot Essay

In these six works Enzo Cucchi deals with several of his central concerns, including the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology. He does this in a playful way with these sketches, several of which position twinned figures of babies set in abstract, nocturnal landscapes, while other works depict birds, and people in distress amidst threatening surroundings.

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