Salvatore Scarpitta

219 SALVATORE SCARPITTA Baya di Pizzaco , 1954 oil on canvas 63.2 x 76.2 cm (24 7/8 x 30 in) Signed and dated 'Scarpitta 54' lower left. ESTIMATE £30,000 - 40,000 PROVENANCE Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome Private Collection of Contessa Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt Private Collection Contact Specialist Request Condtion Report Recieve Email alerts View catalogue Purchase catalogue Annual subscriptions

Salvatore Scarpitta (New York 1919–2007) “Uomo al limite (Ricordo Harlem)” according to label on the reverse, signed, dated Scarpitta 55, oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, framed, (PP) Provenance: Private Collection, Italy Exhibitions: IV Mostra di Arti Figurative, Spoleto, August - September 1956, Exhibition catalogue no. 244 (label on the reverse); Salvatore Scarpitta - Opere 1958 – 1985, Civico Padiglione di Arte Contemporanea, Milan, November 1985 - February 1986, exhibition catalogue page 43 (label on the reverse) Literature: Luigi Sansone, Salvatore Scarpitta, catalogue raisonné, Mazzotta, Milan, 2005, page 152, no. 145 with ill.

LOT 276 SALVATORE SCARPITTA 1919 - 2007 POUCH AND SETTLEMENT SLED wood, canvas and resin; in three parts 50,000—70,000 USD measurements measurements sled: 113 by 18 3/4 by 31 1/2 in. 287 by 47.5 by 80 cm. alternate measurements canvas: 92.5 by 84 1/8 by 6 1/4 in. 235 by 214 by 16 cm. Executed in 1974. Leo Castelli Gallery, New YorkAcquired by the present owner from the above New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Salvatore Scarpitta Sleds,1975Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Salvatore Scarpitta, May - July1977, p. 38, illustratedPhiladelphia, The Institute of Contemporary Art - University ofPennsylvania, Masks/Tents/Vessels/Talismans, 1979-1980, pp. 22, 37,illustratedNew York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Salvatore Scarpitta - AmericanCycle 1958-1982, 1982Mexico City, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Leo Castelli ysus artistas - XXX años de promición del arte contemporáneo, pp.174, p. 279, pl. 141, illustrated Luigi Sansone, Salvatore Scarpitta: catalogue raisonné, Milan,2005, p. 197, pl. 366, illustratedRose Slivka, "The Sleds of Scarpitta", Craft Horizons, August 1975,p. 26, illustrated, illustrated on the coverPatricia Kaplan, "Scarpitta's Sleds: Recall of the Wild," Art inAmerica, no. 63, September - October 1975, p. 75, illustratedSalvatore Scarpitta, 1958-1985, PAC, Milan, 1985, p. 29,illustrated"Salvatore Scarpitta: Cars and Sleds," Differentia: Review ofItalian Thought, no. 2, Spring 1988 This work is registered in the Salvatore Scarpitta Archivecurated by Luigi Sansone, Milan. This work is accompanied by awritten certificate on a photograph released by Archivio SalvatoreScarpitta curated by Luigi Sansone, Milan.

LOT 49 PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF LILLIAN AND FREDERICKKIESLER SALVATORE SCARPITTA 1919 - 2007 NO. 12 signed, titled and dated 1958 on the reverse bandages and mixed media 60,000—80,000 USD Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 122,500 USD measurements 14 by 12 in. 35.6 by 30.5 cm Description signed, titled and dated 1958 on the reverse bandages and mixed media This work is registered in the Salvatore Scarpitta Archivecurated by Luigi Sansone, Milan. This work is accompanied by awritten certificate on photograph released by Archivio SalvatoreScarpitta curated by Luigi Sansone, Milan. PROVENANCE Bequeathed by Lillian Kiesler to the present owner This work is registered in the Salvatore Scarpitta Archivecurated by Luigi Sansone, Milan. This work is accompanied by awritten certificate on photograph released by Archivio SalvatoreScarpitta curated by Luigi Sansone, Milan.

LOT 119 SALVATORE SCARPITTA 1919 - 2007 SAL IS RACER [THREE WORKS] 20,000—30,000 USD measurements measurements each: 30 by 40 in. alternate measurements 76.2 by 101.5 cm Description color photographs mounted on board Executed in 1985, these works are unique. PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist EXHIBITED Milan, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Salvatore Scarpitta1958-1985, 1985Genova, Studio Bonifacio, Salvatore Scarpitta, 1986Mantova, Casa del Mantegna, Omaggio a Tazio Nuvolari, Il mito dellavelocità, l'arte del movimento dal futurismo alla video-arte, 2003,pp. 42, 174 and 175, illustratedRome, Calcografia, Scarpitta, Opere su carta, 2003, pp. 98, 99,100, illustratred LITERATURE AND REFERENCES Luigi Sansone, Salvatore Scarpitta: Catalogue Raisonné, Milan,2005, no. 415, no. 416, no. 417, p. 207, illustrated in color