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Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation

Arnaldo Pomodoro

Disco Solare, Studio

Auction Closed

May 14, 09:30 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation

Arnaldo Pomodoro

b. 1926


Disco Solare, Studio

incised with the artist's signature and numbered 2/6 (on the base)

bronze

38 ¾ by 35 ½ by 25 ½ in.

98.4 by 90.2 by 64.8 cm.

Executed in 1983, this work is number 2 from an edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Marlborough Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in March 1984 by the present owner

Giuseppe Tarozzi, "Arnaldo Pomodoro. Agli artisti occorrono più delle idee che una scuola," Il Giorno, Milan, 28 November 1983, n.p, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Columbus Museum of Art, Italy's Leading Contemporary Sculptor To Premier Works, December 1983, n.p., illustrated

Angela Vettese, "Monumenti in movimento," Doctor, Milan, June - July 1984, p. 91, illustrated

Arnaldo Pomodoro, "L'invenzione scenica per il teatro tragico," Sipario, issue 431, March 1984, pp. 12-13

Wayne Hamm, "Pomodoro: Visionary," Jacksonville Journal, 20 February 1984, n.p., illustrated

Piera Fogliani, "La moda è," in Amica, Milan, 13 November 1984, p. 107, illustrated

Constanzo Costantini, "E il vuoto si fa forma," Il Messaggero, Rome, 7 July 1984, n.p., illustrated

"Mostra di Pomodoro. Esempio della scultura pubblica," Akahata, 5 March 1985, n.p., illustrated

Sankei Shimbun, "Mostra di A. Pomodoro. Il mondo dell'astratto latino", Sankei Shimbun, Tokyo, 1 March 1985, n.p., illustrated

Luciano Caprile, "Voltri? È una scultura, Il Lavoro, Genova, 30 July 1986, n.p., illustrated

Sergio Costa and Massimiliano Taveggia, "Arnaldo Pomodoro", Fascicolo, Milan, January - February 1986, p. 32, illustrated

Daniela Libman, "Arnaldo Pomodoro. Odeio a retórica na scultura", Interview, San Paolo, 1986, p. 109, illustrated

Luciano Parisini, "Ecco il profumo scultura", Allure Beauty, Bologna, April 1986, p. 45, illustrated

Turi Caggegi, "Le macerie rimosse col lavoro del teatro", Il Manifesto, Rome, 9 September 1986, n.p., illustrated

Maristella Rizzo, "Le sculture vive di Arnaldo Pomodoro", Business, Milan, March 1986, p. 102, illustrated

Fratelli Palombi (eds.), Colpo d'Ala di Arnaldo Pomodoro, Rome, 1988, p. 112, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Manuela Pivato, "E l'artista decise: mai dire per sempre", Il Messaggero, Rome, 11 July 1988, p. 12, illustrated

Dino De Maio, "Arnaldo Pomodoro: il tormento della materia", Progetto Ufficio, Milan, May - June 1990, p. 50, illustrated

Bartolomeo de Gioia, "Aspettando la Biennale di Achille Bonito Oliva", Iterarte, Bologna, January 1993, p. 21, illustrated

Dino De Maio, "Arnaldo Pomodoro: il tormento della materia", A & C - Art & Cornice, Milan, March 1993, p. 33, illustrated

Luciana Baldrighi, "L'Arte libraria di Pomodoro", Il Giornale Nuovo, Milan, 23 June 2001, p. 41, illustrated

Flaminio Gualdoni, Arnaldo Pomodoro. Catalogo ragionato della scultura, vol. II, Milan, 2007, no. 709, p. 628, illustrated

Stephanie Barron, Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof collection, New York, 2012, p. 182

Milan, Rotonda della Besana, Artisti e scrittori, November - December 1984, p. 94, illustrated (another example exhibited)

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Masters of Modern and Contemporary Sculpture, November - December 1984, no. 54, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)

Columbus Museum of Art; Jacksonville Art Museum; Worcester Art Museum; Little Rock, Arkansas Arts Center and Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Fisher Gallery, Arnaldo Pomodoro: A Quarter Century, December 1983 - October 1985, no. 28, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)

Tokyo, Contemporary Sculpture Center and Osaka, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Arnaldo Pomodoro, February - April 1985, p. 19, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Florence, Forte di Belvedere, Firenze per l'Arte Contemporanea - Collezioni donazioni fondazioni, October - November 1986 (another example exhibited)

Malcesine, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Arnaldo Pomodoro, July - August 1987, no. 18, n.p, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Novara, Galleria Sorenti, Arnaldo Pomodoro, May - June 1989 (another example exhibited)