Michelangelo Pistoletto

Italian · b. 1933 · Painter, Printmaker

Michelangelo Pistoletto is an Italian painter, action and object artist, and art theorist. Pistoletto is acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte… (Wikipedia)

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  1. Michelangelo Pistoletto, Ragazza in minigonna / Ragazza seduta per terra, 1962-1967, painted tissue paper with graphite and coloured pencil on polished stainless steelRagazza in minigonna / Ragazza seduta per terraPhillips · £2,000,000≈ $2,420,600≈ €2,330,413Sign up to see
  2. Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gruppo di persone, 1962, graphite on tissue paper on mirror-polished stainless steel, mounted to canvasGruppo di personePhillips · $2,405,000≈ £1,593,771≈ €2,231,811Sign up to see
  3. Michelangelo Pistoletto, Corteo, 1965, painted tissue paper on polished stainless steelCorteoPhillips · $2,175,000≈ £1,647,852≈ €1,847,761Sign up to see

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Michelangelo Pistoletto is an Italian painter, action and object artist, and art theorist. Pistoletto is acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera. His work mainly deals with the subject matter of reflection and the unification of art and everyday life in terms of a Gesamtkunstwerk.

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Born 1933, BiellaOccupation Painter, Printmaker, SculptorWikidata Q573178 ↗ULAN 500031799 ↗

In the collections of

TateArt Institute of ChicagoBuffalo AKG Art MuseumDetroit Institute of ArtsFinnish National GalleryHungarian National GalleryM HKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst AntwerpenMu.ZEE - Kunstmuseum aan ZeeMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofíaMuseum Boijmans Van BeuningenMuseum LudwigMuseum of Modern ArtNational Gallery of KosovoNational Museum of Art, Architecture and DesignNeue NationalgalerieRoyal Museums of Fine Arts of BelgiumSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtStedelijk Museum voor Actuele KunstVan AbbemuseumWallraf–Richartz MuseumZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

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Arte Povera

Also known as Michelangelo Olivero-Pistoletto, Michelangelo Pistoleto, Pistoletto Pistoletto

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0), Tate collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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