Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)

Cinquemila due Quadretti in più per l'Equilibrio in 61 x 61 + 49 x 49 (Five thousand two hundred more squares for the balance)

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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Cinquemila due Quadretti in più per l'Equilibrio in 61 x 61 + 49 x 49 (Five thousand two hundred more squares for the balance)
signed, titled and dated 'cinquemila due quadretti in più per l'equilibrio in 61 x 61 + 49 x 49 Alighiero Boetti 1970' (lower left)
graphite and paper collage on graph paper
18¾ x 26in. (47.6 x 66cm.)
Executed in 1970

Provenance

Ben Vautier, Nice.
Galerie 1900-2000, Paris.

Literature

J-C. Amman, Alighiero Boetti Catalogo generale, Milan 2009, no. 315 (illustrated in colour, p. 261).

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Lot Essay

'The greatest joy on earth consists in inventing the world the way it is without inventing anything in the process' (Alighiero Boetti, quoted in, Alighiero Boetti: Mettere al mondo il mondo, exh. cat., Frankfurt 1998, p.297).

Cinquemila due Quadretti in più per l'Equilibrio in 61 x 61 + 49 x 49 (Five thousand two hundred more squares for the balance)

Lot Essay

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