Lot 137
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Ettore Sottsass (Italian 1917-2007) §
Untitled, 1950s
MODERN MADE | Modern Art & Post-War Design | 636
Auction: 30 April 2021 at 11:00 BST
Estimate: £10,000 - £15,000
Description
signed 'SOTTSASS' (to reverse), oil on canvas
Dimensions
79cm x 99cm (31.1in x 39in)
Footnote
Provenance: A Private European Collection of Design
Sottsass was part of the Spazialismo movement founded by Lucio Fontana in the late 1940s and early 1950s and showed similar paintings in the 1st Mostra internationale di arte astratta nel Palazzo reale di Milano and at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Rome in 1948.
For similar works by Sottsass see G. Giani, Spazialismo, origini e sviluppi di una tendeza artistica, Milan, 1956, pls 82-84.