Cretto

Details

Alberto Burri (1915-1995)
Cretto
signed and dated 'Burri 1974 (on the reverse)
acrovinyl on cellotex
12¼ x 17 3/8in.(30 x 42cm.)
Executed in 1974

Provenance

A gift from the artist in 1974 by the previous owner and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini (ed.), Burri Contributi al Catalogo Sistematico, Città di Castello 1990, no. 1074 (illustrated in colour, p. 251).

Exhibited

Florence, Galleria Pananti, Burri da una raccolta privata, 2012, (detail illustrated on the cover).

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

'The material is not hidden, but displayed; it is the reality of the material in its physicality, with its thickness and lumpiness that occupies the space of the picture'.
E. Geuna, in An Italian Revolution, New Poetics of colours, Matter and Space, exh. cat., Hauch of Venison, New York, 2012, p.9.

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