MILAN.- The Part I of the Milanese Modern and Contemporary Art Sale held in the new spot of Palazzo Serbelloni has confirmed the interest and the massive presence of public during the exhibition days.

The 1948 Natura Morta by Giorgio Morandi, the Italian artist celebrated at CIMA in New York, part of the Milanese Marmont Collection, has reached the price of €747.000.

A private European collector enriched his collection with the hypnotic yellow five Tagli Concetto Spaziale executed by Lucio Fontana in 1968 and dedicated to Milan, purchasing the work for €1.383.000.

A tribute to Burri has been offered with this sale in Milan: the four works included in the Part I from a presale total estimate of €1.350.000 have been sold at €2.172.000.

The sale offered an accurate selection of works dated from 1952 to 1980: a very rare Ferro created in 1959 (sold at €699.000), a turning point masterpiece Bianco 1952 (sold for €435.000) and a well-known combustion Bianco Plastica 1968 (sold €735.000).

Of course the most informed collectors were already aware of the importance of these ouvres, similar to the ones published amongst the pages of the fundamental catalogue Trauma of Painting, Guggenheim New York, devoted to Alberto Burri.

As recently happened in the New York sales, Sotheby's registered very positive results for all the sculptures and the ceramics in the Milan auction, which they synthetized with the brilliant price fetched by Melotti’s Senza aggettivi sold at €447.000.

Castellani, Bonalumi and Scheggi, the hottest names of the post war Italian panorama, realized high figures as well.

Sotheby's also announced the exhibition Vincenzo Agnetti- La Macchina Drogata which will be held at Palazzo Serbelloni in February 2016 in collaboration with Archivio Agnetti and curated by Bruno Corà.

The Conceptual artist Agnetti and his 1968 Feltro La tua immagine quando ti sostituivi doubled the estimate and fetched €189.000.

For every Milan sale – comments Raphaelle Blanga Head of Modern & Contemporary Art Dept. of Sotheby’s Italia - we try to give to the collectors few suggestions - hopefully precious – and in this specific occasion we highlighted the artists from the Sixties Roman Pop Art. With pleasure, we registered two world records, for Tano Festa with 1965 Al livello del mare, sold at €177.000 (his oeuvre will be shown in Spring 2016 at the Venice Guggenheim Museum in the exhibition Imagine 1958-1968) and Cesare Tacchi with his 1966 masterpiece “Il letto pensando ad un prato..!” (sold at €183.000) shown in the significant La Vitalità del Negativo nell’Arte Italiana 1960-70, held at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome in 1970. Two further records for Franco Grignani (Incastro tra struttura e colore n 29, 1965 sold at €52.500) and Giosetta Fioroni (Bambino, 1968 sold at €52.500).