Auction 509 Part 1 Evening Sale
Nov 29, 2023
Hitzelerstr. 2, 50968 Köln, Germany
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LOT 14:

Otto Modersohn
Piero Dorazio: "Prima che il lago geli"

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Start price:
136,000
Estimated price :
€170,000 - €250,000
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Auction took place on Nov 29, 2023 at VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG
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Piero Dorazio: "Prima che il lago geli"
DORAZIO, PIERO
1927 Rome - 2005 Perugia

Title: "Prima che il lago geli".
Date: 1958.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 99 x 80cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: DORAZIO 58. Inscirbed, signed, titled and dated verso above: 2 PIERO DORAZIO "prima che il lago geli" 1958.
Frame/Pedestal: Studio bar.

An expertise from archivio piero dorazio, Milan, is available.

Provenance:
- Galerie Springer, Berlin (label)
- Private collection South Germany

Exhibitions:
- Kunsthalle zu Kiel, 1982 (label)
- Kunstverein Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf, 1961

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. Piero Dorazio, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1961, cat. no. 38, Abb. (here with the title "Ton dèsordre")

- Early work that already hints at the later, slender colour structures.
- Extremely dense composition in which strokes and lines combine to form an ornamental structure and create a deep spatiality.
- One year after the work was created, Dorazio took part in documenta II in Kassel as an up-and-coming artist and became a pioneer of abstract art in Italy

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