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Lot 190 | Mario Merz | Vegetable Ampule
Estimate
12.000
- 18.000
€
* F
Result:
(incl. premium)
19.025 €
MERZ, MARIO
1925 Milan - 2003 Turin
Title: Vegetable Ampule.
Date: 1982.
Technique: Mixed media on fibreboard.
Measurement: 82 x 102cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower left: Mario Merz 82.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.
The work is currently being registered in the Archivio Merz in Turin. A certificate will be sent directly to the buyer after the auction.
Provenance:
- Galerie Denise René/Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (sticker)
- Bayer Inc., USA
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 2005)
Exhibitions:
- The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh 1993 (sticker)
- Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013
Literature:
- Farbenfabriken Bayer (ed.): Kunstwerk - Bildende Kunst bei Bayer, Leverkusen 1992, p. 82, fig.
- Miksche, Uta: Bayer Collection of Contemporary Art, Sewickly 1995, p. 75, fig.
- Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 249, fig.
1925 Milan - 2003 Turin
Title: Vegetable Ampule.
Date: 1982.
Technique: Mixed media on fibreboard.
Measurement: 82 x 102cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower left: Mario Merz 82.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.
The work is currently being registered in the Archivio Merz in Turin. A certificate will be sent directly to the buyer after the auction.
Provenance:
- Galerie Denise René/Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (sticker)
- Bayer Inc., USA
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 2005)
Exhibitions:
- The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh 1993 (sticker)
- Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013
Literature:
- Farbenfabriken Bayer (ed.): Kunstwerk - Bildende Kunst bei Bayer, Leverkusen 1992, p. 82, fig.
- Miksche, Uta: Bayer Collection of Contemporary Art, Sewickly 1995, p. 75, fig.
- Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 249, fig.
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Stock Id: 80374-363