Sale 6401
London
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6 December 2000
Price realised
GBP 49,350
Estimate
Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994) Il progressivo svanir della consuetudine ball point pen on paper 395/8 x 140¼in. (100.8 x 356.2cm.) Executed in 1976-77
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This work is recorded in the Archivo Boetti, Rome.
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