A wide array of museum quality works by some of the great Italian modern masters comes up at Christie’s annual Milan Modern and Contemporary sales at Palazzo Clerici on April 28 and 29. There is an ever growing appetite for Italian works and the sales feature modern masters like Lucio Fontana, Enrico Castellani, Agostino Bonalumi and Paolo Scheggi through to Arte Povera artists such as Alighiero Boetti and Michelangelo Pistoletto as well as by some Modern classics including Giorgio Morandi and Gino Severini. Last year’s auction realised 9.8 million.
PAOLO SCHEGGI (1940-1971)
Intersuperficie curva dal rosso
(300,000-500,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 820,200
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale, Attesa (600,000-900,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,690,950
Enrico Castellani
Superficie argento
acrylic on canvas (150,000-200,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 303,600