Ettore Sottsass, Jr. - Design London Thursday, October 17, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private collection, Milan

  • 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)

114

‘Giorno di Nebbia’

1958
Mixed media on paper mounted on canvas, painted wood, painted plywood, acrylic.
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.

Estimate
£25,000 - 35,000 

Contact Specialist
Antonia King
Interim Head of Sale
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Design

London Auction 17 October 2019