Arnaldo Pomodoro - 20th Century to Now London Friday, June 30, 2023 | Phillips

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  • “The concerns of my work as an artist have always centred on the relationship between the individual sculpture and the space in which it is sited. A sculpture, indeed, is the realization of a space of its own within the greater space in which it lives and moves. When a work transforms the place in which it is located, it takes on the valence of a true and proper witness of the times that spawned it, and thus places a mark on its context, enriching it with additional layers of memory. Today I think of my sculptures as crystals… I see them as relating to borders and voyages, to the worlds of complexity and imagination.”
    —Arnaldo Pomodoro

    • Provenance

      Galerie Semiha Huber, Zurich
      Private Collection, Switzerland
      Koller Auktionen AG, Zurich, 1 December 2022, lot 3434
      Thomas B. Lemann, New Orleans (acquired at the above sale)
      Thence by descent to the present owners

    • Exhibited

      Zurich, Galerie Semiha Huber, Arnaldo Pomodoro, 1988 (another example exhibited)
      Novara, Palazzo del Broletto, Galleria Sorrenti, Arnaldo Pomodoro, May - June 1989 (another example exhibited)
      Hakone Open-Air Museum, Arnaldo Pomodoro, 15 January - 21 March 1994, p. 60 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
      Milan, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Sala Napoleonica, Scene del Mediterraneo, 1995 (another example exhibited)
      Sarzana, Fortezza Firmafede, Il mito e il classico nell'arte contemporanea 1960-1990, 28 April - 15 July 1995, p. 148 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
      Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Opera: Percorsi nel mondo del melodramma, 17 December 1997- 9 March 1998 (another example exhibited)
      Cantù, Riva R1920 Centre, Arnaldo Pomodoro. I profgetti scenici-, 2003 (another example exhibited)

    • Literature

      B. di Gioia, 'Arnaldo Pomodoro, L'arte lunga', Iterarte, Bologna, October 1993, no. 37, October, pp. 37-45 and p. 43 (another example illustrated)
      Yukan Fuji, 1994 (illustrated)
      Flaminio Gualdoni ed., Arnaldo Pomodoro: Catalogo ragionato della scultura, Milan, 2007, vol. II, p. 681, no. 836 (another example illustrated)

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THOMAS B. LEMANN

66

Porte dell'Edipo

incised with the artist's signature, title and number '"PORTE dell' EDIPO Arnaldo Pomodoro 6/9' on the base
bronze
63 x 74.1 x 40.1 cm (24 3/4 x 29 1/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
Executed in 1988, this work is number 6 from an edition of 9 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
£60,000 - 80,000 Ω♠

Sold for £88,900

Contact Specialist

Leonor de Osma
Head of Sale, 20th Century to Now
T +44 20 7901 7912
M +44 7584 086 052
ldeosma@phillips.com

20th Century to Now

London Auction 30 June 2023