Art, from Fontana to Morandi: Italian masterpieces at auction at Sotheby’s in Milan

The Sotheby’s auction house is organizing an evening sale of Contemporary Art in Milan on Wednesday 22 November, at Palazzo Serbelloni. The offer will feature more than 50 works by the most important post-war Italian artists (Giorgio de Chirico and Lucio Fontana among others) and by the main exponents of the Roman School and Arte Povera (Alighiero Boetti, Mario Schifano, Enrico Castellani, Giuseppe Capogrossi and Afro).

Furthermore, the sale will feature a select group of paintings by international artists from private Italian collections, including Hans Hartung, Josef Albers, Jannis Kounellis and Henryk Stazewski, whose auction record was set at Sotheby’s in Milan in November 2022 (1 million euros).

Giorgio Morandi is present in the catalog with one Still life of 1955 estimated at 1 – 1.5 million euros, while Lucio Fontana with Space concept of 1961 estimated between 800,000 and 1.2 million euros. Alighiero Boetti is present with Killing Time (1983; estimate 400,000-600,000 euros), one of his most recognizable works, in which bright white apostrophes are arranged on a shimmering blue surface, while the 26 letters of the alphabet run vertically on the left side.

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Mario Schifano will be proposed From the beginning (1961, estimate 300,000-400,000 euros), which reflects his characteristic style of the series Monochromes, for which he used industrial enamel paints on paper, before subsequently spreading them onto irregular stretches of canvas and coating them with a single uniform colour. By Fausto Melotti up for auction The party (1970, estimate 200,000-300,000), large work.