Leonardo Cremonini *
(Bologna 1925–2010 Paris)
I TORI SCUOIATI, 1952, signed, titled and dated on the reverse, oil on canvas, 117 x 80 cm
Provenance:
Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York (label on the reverse)
European Private Collection
(..) According to Georges Bataille, the cultural predecessor of the butchershop was the temple, in which animals were sacrificed and then quartered and consumed. Moderns, in his estimation, have lost their sense of the sacred. In other times and places, bloody rituals bound the members of the community together as they ceremonially consumed the victuals. Today, we want our slaughterhouses out of sight, out of mind (...).
Sarah Stewart-Kroeker and Stephen S. Bush
Beauty In The Slaughterhouse: Francis Bacon’s Books And Painting. Bacon en toutes lettres, Centre Pompidou, Paris 2019).
26.11.2020 - 16:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 11,520.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 9,000.- to EUR 15,000.-
Leonardo Cremonini *
(Bologna 1925–2010 Paris)
I TORI SCUOIATI, 1952, signed, titled and dated on the reverse, oil on canvas, 117 x 80 cm
Provenance:
Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York (label on the reverse)
European Private Collection
(..) According to Georges Bataille, the cultural predecessor of the butchershop was the temple, in which animals were sacrificed and then quartered and consumed. Moderns, in his estimation, have lost their sense of the sacred. In other times and places, bloody rituals bound the members of the community together as they ceremonially consumed the victuals. Today, we want our slaughterhouses out of sight, out of mind (...).
Sarah Stewart-Kroeker and Stephen S. Bush
Beauty In The Slaughterhouse: Francis Bacon’s Books And Painting. Bacon en toutes lettres, Centre Pompidou, Paris 2019).
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| Auction: | Contemporary Art II |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction with Live Bidding |
| Date: | 26.11.2020 - 16:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
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