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Provenance: Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1980
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Exhibited: Modena, Galleria Civica, I Rassegna Biennale delle Gallerie di Tendenza Italiana, 1969.
Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Giovanni Anselmo, 1979 (illustrated, p. 81). This exhibition later travelled to Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum.
Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, Giovanni Anselmo, 1980 (illustrated, p. 55).
Paris, Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Anselmo, 1985, no. 10 (illustrated, p. 43).
London, Hayward Gallery, Gravity & Grace: The Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965-1975, 1993 (illustrated, p. 46).
London, Tate Modern, Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972, 2001-2003, no. 9 (illustrated, p. 183). This exhibition later travelled to Minneapolis, Walker Art Centre; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art and Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Public Space/Two Audiences--Works and Documents from the Herbert Collection, 2006 (illustrated, p. 71).
Graz, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Inventur Works from the Herbert Collection, 2006 (installation view illustrated in colour, pp. 46 and 48).
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Literature: Giovanni Anselmo, exh. cat., Santiago de Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, 1995, no. 35 (illustrated, p. 95).
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Notes: Giovanni Anselmo (b. 1934)
Verso L'infinito (Towards Infinity)
incised (on the top side)
incised varnished iron
5 7/8 x 15¾ x 7 7/8 (15.1 x 40 x 20.2 cm.)
Executed in 1969.
