Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994), Mappa

Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Mappa
signed, titled and inscribed ‘1979 alighiero e boetti KABUL AFGHANISTAN’ (upper right)
embroidery on canvas
embroidery: 43 ¾ x 68 7/8in. (111 x 175cm.)
overall: 48 x 73 ½in. (121.8 x 186.8cm.)
Executed in 1984

Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Provenance
Galleria Free Art, Turin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SERGIO TOMASINELLI, TURIN

Literature
J-C. Ammann, Alighiero Boetti, Catalogo generale, Tomo terzo / 1, Milan 2015, no. 1282 (illustrated in colour, p. 75).

Post Lot Text
This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti under no. 5242 and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the Archivio Alighiero Boetti.