Rosa (Pink)

Details

Agostino Bonalumi (1935-2013)
Rosa (Pink)
signed and dated ' A Bonalumi 64' (on the reverse)
vinyl tempera on shaped canvas
27 5/8 x 23 5/8in. (70.2 x 60cm.)
Executed in 1964

Provenance

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist in the mid 1960s).
Private Collection (by descent).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's Milan, 27 November 2012, lot 40.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

F. Bonalumi & A. Fiz (eds.), Bonalumi, Cinisello Balsamo 2014, no. 20 (illustrated in colour, p. 68).
F. Bonalumi and M. Meneguzzo (eds.), Agostino Bonalumi catalogo ragionato, vol. II, Milan 2015, no. 133 (illustrated, p. 354).

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. These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer’s Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.

Further Details

This work is registered with the Archivio Bonalumi uder no. 64-043 and is accompanied by a photocertificate released by Archivio Bonalumi, Milan.

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Lot Essay

‘Each work for me is already conceived as having a certain colour: we might say that it is born in colour. I have even written that my works are not coloured forms, but forms emerging from colours, hence light.’
–Agostino Bonalumi

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