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Mario Merz (1925-2003)
Une Histoire de Nombres (A Story of Numbers)
signed, titled and dated 'Mario Merz 1972 une histoire de nombres' (lower left)
spray paint and felt-tip pen on perforated paper laid on felt-tip pen on paper
66 x 48cm.
Executed in 1972
Provenance
Galerie Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris.
Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1981.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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‘Conceptual Art is a sounding instrument between printed words, luminous writings, and letters scrawled in a hasty nervous instinctive calligraphy’ – Mario Merz

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