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1000 People Hugging Together
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Paola Pivi (b. 1971)
1000 People Hugging Together
signed and inscribed '1000 PEOPLE HUGGING TOGETHER THE ROTUNDA FILLED WITH 800 OR 1000 PEOPLE MAKING ONE BIG HUG PEOPLE ARE NOT HUGGING 2 BY 2 BUT ALL OF THEM TOGETHER 4 OR 5 PEOPLE WOULD START HUGGING IN THE CENTER, AND EVERYBODY ELSE WOULD HUG THEM FROM THE BACK' (along the lower edge); signed twice, dated and dedicated 'PAOLA PIVI 2009 TO THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM IN NEW YORK Paola Pivi' (on the reverse)
graphite on paper
18¾ x 12in. (47.7 x 33cm.)
Executed in 2009
1000 People Hugging Together
signed and inscribed '1000 PEOPLE HUGGING TOGETHER THE ROTUNDA FILLED WITH 800 OR 1000 PEOPLE MAKING ONE BIG HUG PEOPLE ARE NOT HUGGING 2 BY 2 BUT ALL OF THEM TOGETHER 4 OR 5 PEOPLE WOULD START HUGGING IN THE CENTER, AND EVERYBODY ELSE WOULD HUG THEM FROM THE BACK' (along the lower edge); signed twice, dated and dedicated 'PAOLA PIVI 2009 TO THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM IN NEW YORK Paola Pivi' (on the reverse)
graphite on paper
18¾ x 12in. (47.7 x 33cm.)
Executed in 2009
Provenance
Donated directly by the artist.
Charity sale, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, 18 March 2010.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Charity sale, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, 18 March 2010.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, 2010.
Special Notice
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