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€ 1.500 - 2.500
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At auction on Wednesday 18 June 2025 at 16:00
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cm 36,8 x 25,3 | 14.5 x 10 in.
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Ugo Mulas's long-standing relationship with Lucio Fontana allows the photographer a complicity with the artist that emerged in the famous 1964 sequence “L'attesa” with the cutting of the canvas. Here, however, the photographer shows that skill in reproducing works acquired through frequenting the studios of painters and sculptors. These three prints thus become an effective reference to the artistic work of the great master of Spatialism: one recognizes three famous spatial concepts from 1965 entitled “Teatrini” because they are composed of perforated monochrome canvases inserted into shaped frames that are integral parts of the works. The portrait made of Marcel Duchamp - published several times in major monographs - is part of a large series of shots made in New York outdoors in Washington Square, inside the Museum of Modern Art in front of his famous “Grande vetro” which he observes with distant detachment and, as in our case, in his home. It is Mulas himself who reminds us that he was interested in highlighting Duchamp's “attitudes of non-doing” and “highlighting his renunciation.” Thus, he catches him as, sitting in his famous armchair, he casts a glance at the photograph of him playing chess with a naked woman. For the record, it had been made in 1963 at the Pasadena Museum of Art, L.A., where Walter Hopps had curated the artist's first American retrospective. The author of the image, Julian Wasser, asked 20-year-old friend Eva Babliz during the opening to pose nude in homage to Duchamp's provocative art, which she, the daughter of an artist, did with enthusiasm.