LOT DETAILS

Materials:

stitched canvas

Measurements:

27.95 in. (71.00 cm.) (height) by 20.87 in. (53.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 1959 on the reverse; signed and dated 1959 on the stretcher

Literature:

Freddy Battino and Luca Palazzoli, Piero Manzoni Catalogue Raisonné, Milan 1991, p. 353, no. 646, illustrated; Germano Celant, Piero Manzoni Catalogo Generale, Milan 2004, p. 489, no. 631, illustrated; Anna and Gerhard Lenz with Ulrike Bleicker-Honisch, Epoche Zero. Sammlung Lenz Schönberg. Leben in Kunst, Vol. I, Ostfildern 2009, p. 55, no. MAN-11, illustrated in colour

Provenance:

Galerie Thelen, Essen; Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp; Collection Lenz-Schӧnberg, Salzburg (acquired in 1987); Sale: Sotheby's, London, Zero; Property from the Sammlung Lenz Schӧnberg, 10 February 2010, Lot 23; Acquired directly from the above by the present owner