L'Ariete

Details

Fausto Melotti (1901-1989)
L'Ariete
brass, copper and fabric
45¾ x 22 3/8 x 8½in. (116 x 57 x 21.5cm.)
Executed in 1976

Provenance

Galleria Gianferrari, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008.

Literature

G. Celant, Melotti. Catalogo generale, Tomo I, Sculture 1929-1972 e Bassorilievi, Milan 1994, no. 1976 47 (illustrated, p. 453).

Exhibited

Desenzano del Garda, Galleria Civica Palazzo Tedeschini, Melotti. Sculture e disegni, 1989 (illustrated, p. 27).
Paris, Galerie Di Meo, Melotti, 1990, no. 9 (illustrated on the frontispiece and p. 41). This exhibition later travelled to Milan, Galleria Tega and Verona, Galleria dello Scudo.
Turin, Eva Menzio, Fausto Melotti. Sculture e disegni, 1991.
Gorla Maggiore, Torre Colombera di Gorla Maggiore, Fra Terra E Cielo - Fontana, Melotti, Leoncillo, 1995 (illustrated, p. 47).
Ascoli Piceno, Sant'Agostino, Chagall - Licini e il sopra-naturale, 2001-2002 (illustrated, p. 85).

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

'In creation, culture is in balance with the revelations of the unconscious'.
F. Melotti, quoted in Fausto Melotti, exh. cat., Acquavella Galleries, New York, p. 41.

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