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Mappa by Alighiero Boetti

Alighiero Boetti

Mappa, 1988

Embroidery on linen
128 x 232.1 cm (50.38 x 91.38 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, London (15 Oct 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021
Christie'sLondon20th/21st Century: Evening Sale Including Thinking Italian, London17
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Mappa
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

128 x 232.1 cm (50.38 x 91.38 in)

Materials

embroidery on linen

Signature

signed, inscribed and dated 'alighiero e boetti a TAGUR - AFGHANISTAN 1989' (on the overlap)

Provenance

Galleria Tornabuoni, Florence.

Acquired from the above in 1998, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

Rovereto, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (on long term loan since 1998).

Merano, Merano Arte/Kunst Meran, Children's Corner: Artist Books for Children , 2007, p. 124 (illustrated in colour, pp. 124-125).

Rovereto, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Percorsi privati. Lo sguardo di un collezionista da Balla a Chen Zhen , 2007, pp. 132 and 170, no. 51 (illustrated in colour, p. 133).

Rovereto, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Eurasia: Dissolvenze geografiche dell ’ arte , 2008 , p. 42 (illustrated in colour, pp. 42-43).

Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, 1989: End of History or Beginning of the Future? Notes on the break in epochs , 2009-2010, pp. 90 and 302 (illustrated in colour, pp. 92-93). This exhibition later travelled to Potsdam, Villa Schöningen.

Belgrade, Italian Cultural Institute of Belgrade, Arte Povera. Opere dalle collezioni del Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto , 2010, (illustrated in colour on the front cover and p. 43; detail illustrated in colour pp. 18-19). This exhibition later travelled to Sao Paulo, SESC Belhenzino.

Rovereto, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, La magnifica ossessione , 2012-2014, no. 8 (installation view illustrated in colour, p. 63).

Rovereto, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, La guerra che verrà non è la prima , 2014-2015, p. 404, no. 6 (illustrated in colour, pp. 404-405).

Messina, Museo Interdisciplinare Regionale, Mediterraneo. Luoghi e Miti. Capolavori del Mart, 2016-2017, p. 116 (illustrated in colour, pp. 116-117).

Literature

M. Van Leeuw and A. Pontégnie (eds.), Origin and Destination. Alighiero e Boetti, Douglas Huebler , exh. cat., Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, 1998, p. 76 (illustrated in colour and incorrectly dated '1986').

Description

ALIGHIERO BOETTI (1940-1994)

Mappa

signed, inscribed and dated 'alighiero e boetti a TAGUR - AFGHANISTAN 1989' (on the overlap)

embroidery on linen

50 3/8 x 91 3/8in. (128 x 232cm.)

Executed in 1988-1989