Giuseppe Penone - New Now New York Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Bremen, Neues Museum Weserburg; Kunsthalle Nürnberg; Cologne, Kölnisher Kunstverein; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwing; Gothenburg, Konsthalle, Göteborg; Munich, Sammlung Goetz, Arte Povera, Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz 1958 bis heute, June 22, 1997–May 20, 2000, pp. 160, 239 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 160)
    Basel Kunstmuseum, Arte Povera. Der grosse aufbruch, September 9, 2012–February 3, 2013 (another example exhibited)
    New York, Hauser & Wirth, Arte Povera, September 12–October 28, 2017, pp. 167, 176, 263 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 167)
    Florence, Uffizi Galleries, Alberi in versi (Trees in Verse), July 6–October 3, 2021, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Wassenaar, Museum Voorlinden, Giuseppe Penone, October 8, 2022–January 29, 2023 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    Giuseppe Penone, exh. cat., Carré d’Art, Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, 1997, p. 50 (another example illustrated)
    Giuseppe Penone: The Imprint of Drawing, exh. cat., The Drawing Center, New York, 2004, p. 28 (another example illustrated)
    Carlos Basualdo, ed., Giuseppe Penone: The Inner Life of Forms, New York, 2018, p. 11 (another example illustrated)

207

Rovesciare i propri occhi (Reversing One's Eyes)

signed, titled, indistinctly inscribed and dated "le lenti [...] "Rovesciare i propri occhi" Guiseppe Penone 1970" on the lower quadrants; stamped with a Paolo Mussat Sartor copyright stamp on the reverse
black and white silver selenium print on baryta paper
15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (40 x 29.8 cm)
Executed in 1970, this work is a unique variant from an edition of 7.

Estimate
$30,000 - 50,000 

Sold for $50,800

Contact Specialist

Avery Semjen
Head of Sale, New Now
212 940 1207
asemjen@phillips.com

New Now

New York Auction 8 March 2023