Contrappunto Piano

Details

Fausto Melotti (1901-1986)
Contrappunto Piano
incised with the artist's signature and number 'Melotti 42/99' (extreme upper left edge)
brass
21 x 63 x 4 1/8in. (53.5 x 160 x 10.5cm.)
Executed in 1973, this work is number forty-two from an edition of ninety-nine (from 1-20/99 measuring 48 x 140 x 10cm.; from 21-69/99 measuring 53.5 x 160 x 10.5cm.; from 70-99/99 measuring 62 x 180 x 12cm.) plus five artist's proofs

Provenance

Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

Qui Arte Contemporanea. Venticinque anni, exh. cat., Rome, Galleria Editalia QUI arte contemporanea, 1991-1992 (another from the edition illustrated).
G. Celant, Melotti. Catalogo generale, Milan 1994, vol. II, no. 1973 74 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 375).

Exhibited

Sartirana, Castello di Sartirana, Melotti Opere 1954-1986, 1986 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 50).
St. Moritz, Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Drawing in Space, 2014 (another from the edition exhibited).

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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‘Music, the matrix of arts, is the paradigm of [the coexistence of space and time in a work of art], as it contains both these categories which, by their unification, give life to the universe (...) There is a structured musical space in harmony and a musical beat in the scansion of counterpoint: imitation, canon, variation, even the simple evolution of a melody.’ – Fausto Melotti

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