LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze with gold patina

Measurements:

90.94 in. (231.00 cm.) (height) by 79.92 in. (203.00 cm.) (width) by 40.55 in. (103.00 cm.) (width)

Edition:

ed of 2 + 2 AP

Markings:

incised with artist’s signature, numbered and dated ‘Arnaldo Pomodoro 02 p. a. 89’ (in the upper edge of the lower element)

Exhibited:

Kanagawa, The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Arnaldo Pomodoro , 1994, no. 44, p. 103 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 70). The exhibition later travelled to Toyama, The Museum of Modern Art; Kurashiki, Ohara Museum of Art and Nishinomiya City, Otani Memorial Art Museum

Literature:

“Contents”, no. 3, Tokyo, March 1994. “Kyoto Shimbun”, Kyoto, 26 November 1994 (another from the edition illustrated, unpaged). “Sankei Shimbun”, Osaka, 22 October 1994 (another from the edition illustrated, unpaged). “Sankei Shimbun”, Osaka, 28 October 1994 (another from the edition illustrated, unpaged). Arnaldo Pomodoro, exh. cat., Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, 2004, p. 38-39. F. Gualdoni, Arnaldo Pomodoro. Catalogo ragionato della scultura , vol. II, Milan 2007, no. 859, p. 693 (variant with rings illustrated, p. 692)

Provenance:

Maeda Collection, Tokyo (acquired directly from the artist). Acquired from the above by the present owner