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Ettore Sottsass, Jr.
‘Giorno di Nebbia’
- Estimate
- £25,000 - 35,000♠
Lot Details
Mixed media on paper mounted on canvas, painted wood, painted plywood, acrylic.
1958
170.2 x 55 x 7.4 cm (67 x 21 5/8 x 2 7/8 in.) including frame
Reverse signed in pencil SOTTSASS/58 and titled in black marker GIORNO DI NEBBIA.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
‘From morning to evening, and sometimes all through the night...I used to see an infinite number of signs: signs made with pencils, signs made with inks, signs made with colours, with paintbrushes and with the liquid of colours…and gradually became familiar with signs, and slowly learns to distinguish between signs, and to attribute meanings to them’.
Ettore Sottsass, Jr. in Scritto di notte
(Fulvio Ferrari, Sottsass: 1000 Ceramics, Turin, 2017, p. 13)
Ettore Sottsass, Jr. in Scritto di notte
(Fulvio Ferrari, Sottsass: 1000 Ceramics, Turin, 2017, p. 13)
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