Bidspirit auction | Mario Merz: Vegetable Ampule

Mario Merz: Vegetable Ampule - MERZ, MARIO 1925 Milan - 2003 Turin Title: Vegetable Ampule. Date: 1982. Technique: Mixed media on fibreboard. Measurement: 82 x 102cm. Notation: Signed and dated lower left: Mario Merz 82. Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Not examined out of the frame. The work is currently being registered in the Archivio Merz in Turin. A certificate will be sent directly to the buyer after the auction. Provenance: - Galerie Denise René/Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (sticker) - Bayer Inc., USA - Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 2005) Exhibitions: - The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh 1993 (sticker) - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013 Literature: - Farbenfabriken Bayer (ed.): Kunstwerk - Bildende Kunst bei Bayer, Leverkusen 1992, p. 82, fig. - Miksche, Uta: Bayer Collection of Contemporary Art, Sewickly 1995, p. 75, fig. - Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 249, fig. Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction. This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1) Explanations to the Catalogue Mario Merz Arte Povera Post-War Art Post War 1980s Framed. Not examined out of the frame Abstract Painting Mixed media