Lavoro postale (Permutazione)

Details

Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Lavoro postale (Permutazione)
each: signed 'Alighiero Boetti' (on the reverse)
(i) numbered 'LA PRIMA / LA PREMIERE / THE FIRST' (on the reverse)
(xxii) numbered 'L'ULTIMA / LA DERNIERE / THE LAST' (on the reverse)
twenty-two stamped envelopes (afghan stamps)
each: 4 1/8 x 9 ¼in. (10.5 x 23.5cm.)
Executed in 1972

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner circa 1972.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Art & Project, Eight Italians, 1973. This exhibition later travelled to Brussels, Galerie MTL.

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.

Further Details

This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti and it will be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

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Lot Essay

‘The postal system , which Boetti was among the first to use, was essential. He enjoyed himself immensely with art turned into the relationship between sender and recipient’.

(A. Sauzeau, quoted in Alighiero Boetti catalogue raisonné, Milan 2012, p. 22)

Lavoro postale (Permutazione)

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