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Tra l’incudine e il martello (Between the Devil and the Deep Sea)
Details
Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Tra l’incudine e il martello (Between the Devil and the Deep Sea)
signed 'alighiero e boetti' (on the overlap)
embroidery on linen
8 ½ x 8 3/8in. (21.6 x 21.4cm.)
Executed in 1987
Tra l’incudine e il martello (Between the Devil and the Deep Sea)
signed 'alighiero e boetti' (on the overlap)
embroidery on linen
8 ½ x 8 3/8in. (21.6 x 21.4cm.)
Executed in 1987
Provenance
Estate of the Artist.
Private Collection, Turin.
Ben Brown Fine Arts, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.
Private Collection, Turin.
Ben Brown Fine Arts, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.
Exhibited
Turin, Galleria d'Arte Carlina, Alighiero Boetti: Dall'oggi al domani, 2004 (illustrated in colour, p. 35).
London, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Alighiero Boetti: Un pozzo senza fine, Embroideries, 2006, p. 77, no. 5 (illustrated in colour, p. 40).
London, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Alighiero Boetti: Un pozzo senza fine, Embroideries, 2006, p. 77, no. 5 (illustrated in colour, p. 40).
Special Notice
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Further Details
This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome, under no. 3903, and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
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