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PIERO MANZONI (1933-1963)
Achrome
polyester soaked in cobalt chloride
25 x 19 1/4 in. (63.5 x 49 cm.)
Executed in 1960-1961.
Provenance
Galleria Notizie, Turin
Alfred Otto Mueller Cologne
Joshua L. Mack, New York
Private collection, Chicago
Sperone Westwater, New York
Private collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2010
Literature
G. Celant, Piero Manzoni Catalogo generale, Milan, 1975, p. 225, no. 6 cc (illustrated).
F. Battino and L. Palazzoli, eds., Piero Manzoni Catalogue Raisonné, Milan, 1991, p. 416, no. 869 (illustrated).
Breakthroughs: Avant–Garde Artists in Europe and America, 1950–1990, exh. cat., New York, 1991, pp. 28 and 296 (illustrated).
G. Celant, Piero Manzoni Catalogo generale, Milan, 2004, vol. I, p. 255, no. 840 (illustrated).
G. Celant, Piero Manzoni Catalogo generale, Milan, 2004, vol. II, p. 517, no. 840.
Piero Manzoni, exh. cat., Naples, MADRE Museo di Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, 2007), Electa, pp. 208 and 389, no. 186 (illustrated).
ZERO, exh. cat., Berlin, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2015, pp. 392 and 526 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Columbus, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts at The Ohio State University, Art in Europe and America: The 1950s and 1960s, February-April 1990, pp. 28 and 296 (illustrated).
Madrid, Fundación Caixa de Pensiones; Turin, Castello di Rivoli, Piero Manzoni October 1991-May 1992, p. 225.
New York, Sperone Westwater, Some Kind of Fact Some Kind of Fiction, January-February 1994.
Santa Monica, Patricia Faure Gallery, Fontana, Manzoni, Paolini, Garutti, Gastini, Summer 1995.
Gwacheon, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Tradition and Innovation: Italian Contemporary Art Since 1945, December 1995-January 1996.
Verona, Studio la Città, Mostra n. 197. Intimamente, July-October 1998, n.p., (illustrated).
New York, Sperone Westwater, AGAINST NATURE: Alberto Burri Lucio Fontana Piero Manzoni September-October 2000.
New York, Sperone Westwater, ZERO in New York, November-December 2008, p. 252 (illustrated).