ALIGHIERO BOETTI (1940-1994) Oggi è il decimo giorno del sesto...

ALIGHIERO BOETTI (1940-1994)
Oggi è il decimo giorno del sesto mese dell'anno millenovecentottantotto accanto al Pantheon (Today is the tenth day of the sixth month of the year nineteen eighty-eight, next to the Pantheon)
signed and inscribed 'Alighiero e Boetti' (on the overlap)
embroidery on linen
45 ¼ x 43 7/8in. (115 x 111.5cm.)
Executed in 1988

Provenance
Private Collection.
Anon. sale, De Vuyst Lokeren, 15 May 1999, lot 507.
Private Collection.
Galerie KAESS-WEISS, Stuttgart.
Thomas Dane Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by The Peter Simon Collection in 2001.

Literature
A. Boetti, A. Mercanti and C. Niccolini (eds.), Alighiero Boetti Catalogo generale, Tomo quarto / 1 Mappe, Tutto, Grandi Ricami, Boetti-Paladino, Kilim, Tappeti, Aerei, Biro, Milan 2025, no. 2625 (illustrated in colour, p. 148).