$468,000
Arnaldo Pomodoro (Italian, b. 1926) Rotante primo sezionale n. 1 [Rotating First Section No. 1] , 1966 Incised signature and number "Arnaldo Pomodoro -02 p.a." on the plinth l.r., incised title and date "...1966-" on the plinth l.l. Bronze, 31 1/2 in. (80.0 cm) diameter, set on a cast acrylic plinth. Condition: Minor surface abrasions to bronze and acrylic surfaces. Provenance: Purchased from Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Rome; collection of Melvin B. Nessel, Boston, Massachusetts. Literature: Flaminio Gualdoni and Arnaldo Pomodoro, Arnaldo Pomodoro: Catalogo ragionato della scultura , Milan: Skira, 2007, p. 524, no. 396 (illustrated); Sam Hunter, Arnaldo Pomodoro , New York: Abbeville Press, 1982, no. 76 (final edition illustrated). N.B. The present work is one of two artist proofs outside the edition of two, and is registered with the Archivio Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy, as AP 263. We wish to thank the Arnaldo Pomodoro Studio for their assistance with cataloguing the lot. Pomodoro began his experiments with "sculpture in the round" in the mid-1950s, moving away from his carved bas-relief "tablets" toward penetrable, free-standing geometric volumes. This development for Pomodoro was less a result of technical innovation than it was a search for "a more dialectical process of both constructing and destroying geometric forms."(1) Pomodoro considered his bas-relief carving to represent a form of abstract "writing," and his search into the limit of this ki Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-01-29
