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Tout de Suite II / Modern & Contemporary Art

Tuesday 16 September 2025, 03:00 PM • Milan

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Afro Basaldella, Libero de Libero, Franco Gentilini, Mino Maccari, Fausto Pirandello, Domenico Purificato, Orfeo Tamburi

Ceramic table top, 1951

Estimate

€ 20.000 - 30.000

Sold

€ 25.350

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

table with ceramic top on nitro-painted iron sheet base
d cm 120, h cm 80 (including the base)
The table top was created by several people for Luigi De Luca publisher: the scissors and the typographic characters refer to the profession.
In the centre is the  Battistero di Gentilini, surrounded by a tondo by Maccari (above a drawing by Tamburi), a composition by Afro, a book with poetry by de Libero, figures by Pirandello, and a portrait of Purificato.
The base of the table in nitro-painted iron sheet was made to a design and by the architect Valeria Sissa.

Provenance

Rome, De Luca collection;
Rome, private collection

Exhibition

Rome,  Sotto le stelle del '44 - Storia, Arte, Cultura dalla Guerra alla Liberazione, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, December 1994 - February 1995, cat. p. 160, col. ill.

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