Pietro Consagra
b. 1920, Mazara del Vallo, Italy
d. 2005, Milan, Italy
Colloquio Impossibile (Impossible Conversation)
1959
Bronze
163 x 166 x 17 cm (64 1/8 x 65 3/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the previous owner in the 1960s and thence by descent;
Christie's, London, 14 October 2011, lot. 88.
Literature
N. Ponente, Pietro Consagra, in Cimaise, no. 50, Paris October-November 1960 (another from the smaller version illustrated, p. 102, incorrectly titled Colloquio a New York).
G. McCue, Verve and Elegance at Italian Show, in Music and Arts, New York 16 April 1961 (illustrated, unpaged).
G. Carandente, Consagra '71, in Sicilia, Palermo December, 1973, no. 73 (illustrated, p. 24).
