179 - Arnaldo Pomodoro (Morciano di Romagna 1926 – Milan 2025)

Arnaldo Pomodoro (Morciano di Romagna 1926 – Milan 2025) Multiple lot consisting of two bas-reliefs First image (Inscription) 1974 Burnished brass plate and gilded brass plate mounted on wood, no. 4/30, Multicenter Grafica Edition, Milan. Features an autographed text by Francesco Leonetti engraved on the work 100 x 70 x 5 cm Signature, date, and number engraved in the lower right corner Title, date, and number on a label on the back Work registered in Arnaldo Pomodoro’s Catalogue Raisonné under no. M/74/1 Second image (Inscription) 1974 Burnished brass plate and gilded brass plates mounted on wood, no. 2/30, Multicenter Grafica Edition, Milan. Features an engraved autograph text by Francesco Leonetti 100 x 70 x 5 cm Signature, date, and number engraved in the lower right corner Title, date, and number on a label on the back Work listed in Arnaldo Pomodoro’s Catalogue Raisonné as no. M/74/2 Provenance: Marlborough Art Gallery, Rome (labels on the reverse) Exhibitions: October 22–November 7, 1977, Sculptures by Arnaldo Pomodoro. A Tribute to Aroldo Bonzagni, Auditorium San Lorenzo, Cento May 4–June 22, 1975, Arnaldo Pomodoro: Drawings / Lithographs / Sculptures, Galleria Corsini, Intra December 11, 1974–January 24, 1975, Arnaldo Pomodoro. Sculptures, Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, Brussels May 30, 1974, Arnaldo Pomodoro: Series of Plates, Galleria Multicenter, Milan Bibliography: Berra L., Sgaravatto I., “Fundamental Places,” in Arnaldo Pomodoro: The Possible Movement, in collaboration with the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation, Società Editrice Allemandi, Turin, 2025, p. 111, no. 7 (ill.) Donzelli A., “On the Making of Signboards: Corporeal Inscriptions and Material Transpositions of Writing into the Written,” in *Semiotic Review 13: Dialogues between Continental Semiotic and Linguistic Anthropology*, June 2025, (ill.) E. Lima, “Francesco Leonetti: Following Arnaldo Pomodoro’s Long Art,” in “Letteratura & Arte,” Pisa–Rome, no. 19, 2021, p. 173 (ill.). Gualdoni, F., Arnaldo Pomodoro: Thinking the Page, Sala Serpotta, Biblioteca di via Senato, Milan, Biblioteca di via Senato Edizioni, Milan, 2001, p. 12. L. Berra, B. Leonetti (eds.), Critical Writings on Arnaldo Pomodoro and the Artist’s Works 1955–2000, Editori di Comunicazione, Milan, 2000, p. 137 (ill.) F. Russoli (ed.), Arnaldo Pomodoro: Drawings / Lithographs / Sculptures, Galleria Corsini, Intra, 1975, plate 1 (ill.) T. Trini (ed.), Arnaldo Pomodoro. Sculptures, Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, Brussels, 1974, (ill.) T. Trini, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Galleria Multicenter, Milan, 1974 Arnaldo Pomodoro (Morciano di Romagna 1926 – Milan 2025) A set comprising two bas-reliefs First image (Inscription) 1974 Burnished brass sheet and gilded brass plate mounted on wood, no. 4/30, Multicenter Grafica Edition, Milan. Features an autograph text by Francesco Leonetti. 100 x 70 x 5 cm Signature, date, and number engraved lower right Title, date, and number on a label on the reverse Work registered in Arnaldo Pomodoro’s Catalogue Raisonné under no. M/74/1 Second Image (Inscription) 1974 Burnished brass sheet and gilded brass plates mounted on wood, no. 2/30, Edizione Multicenter Grafica, Milan. Features a handwritten text by Francesco Leonetti. 100 x 70 x 5 cm Signature, date, and number engraved in the lower right corner Title, date, and number on a label on the reverse Work registered in Arnaldo Pomodoro’s Catalogue Raisonné under no. M/74/2 Provenance: Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Rome (labels on the back) Exhibitions: October 22–November 7, 1977, “Sculptures by Arnaldo Pomodoro. A Tribute to Aroldo Bonzagni,” Auditorium San Lorenzo, Cento May 4–June 22, 1975, Arnaldo Pomodoro: Drawings / Lithographs / Sculptures, Galleria Corsini, Intra December 11, 1974 – January 24, 1975, Arnaldo Pomodoro. Sculptures, Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, Brussels May 30, 1974, Arnaldo Pomodoro: Series of Plates, Galleria Multicenter, Milan Bibliography: Berra L., Sgaravatto I., “Fundamental Places,” in *Arnaldo Pomodoro: The Possible Movement*, in collaboration with the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation, Società Editrice Allemandi, Turin, 2025, p. 111, no. 7 (ill.) Donzelli A., “On the Making of Signboards: Corporeal Inscriptions and Material Transpositions of Writing into the Written,” in *Semiotic Review 13: Dialogues between Continental Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology*, June 2025, (ill.) E. Lima, “Francesco Leonetti: Following Arnaldo Pomodoro’s Long Art,” in *Letteratura & Arte*, Pisa–Rome, no. 19, 2021, p. 173 (ill.). Gualdoni, F., Arnaldo Pomodoro: Thinking the Page, Sala Serpotta, Biblioteca di via Senato, Milan, Biblioteca di via Senato Edizioni, Milan, 2001, p. 12. L. Berra, B. Leonetti (eds.), Critical Writings on Arnaldo Pomodoro and the Artist’s Works 1955–2000, Editori di Comunicazione, Milan, 2000, p. 137 (ill.) F. Russoli (ed.), Arnaldo Pomodoro: Drawings / Lithographs / Sculptures, Galleria Corsini, Intra, 1975, plate 1 (ill.) T. Trini (ed.), Arnaldo Pomodoro. Sculptures,