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Important Paintings, Sculptures, Watercolors and Drawings, Prints and Multiples
Monday, 23 May 2011, 06:00 pm

Mimmo Paladino, Il pane della storia

Lot 54

Mimmo Paladino, 1948 (IT)

Il pane della storia, 1988

Bronze.

H 350 mm W 640 mm D 435 mm. P.A. Signed.

CHF20'000 / 30'000
EUR17'000 / 26'000
USD22'000 / 32'000

Hammer Price: CHF 18'000

Annotation:

This work is the artist's copy, Total edition: 5 + 1 artist's copy.

Provenance: Sotheby's London, 23.06.2005, Lot 301;
Private property.

Exhibitions: Ana Gallery and Duson Gallery Seoul, Mimmo Paladino, 1991;
Scuderie di Palazzo Reale Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes and Piazza del Plebiscito Neapel, Paladino a Napoli, 1995 - 1996;
Waddington Galleries Ltd. London, Mimmo Paladino - Bronze and Iron, Sculpture 1987 - 2000, 2003. No. 2.

Literature: Jean-Luc Chalumeau, Catherine Flohic.
Sculpture des années 80. Brüssel, 1990.
Page 151, color illustration of a different cast with wrong dating;
Forte Belvedere, Mimmo Paladino. Florenz, 1993.
No. 19, page 152, color illustration of a different cast;
Exhibition catalogue. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Monterrey,
Mimmo Paladino. Monterrey, 1994.
No. 36, page 167, illustration of a different cast;
John Sallis, Danilo Echer. Paladino: A Monograph. Mailand, 2001.
Page 131, illustration of a different cast;
Waddington Galleries. Mimmo Paladino. London, 2003.
Page 13, illustration of a different cast.