Artist: Alberto Burri [imputee] (Italian, 1915-1995). Title: "Combustione #2". Medium: Mixed media on paper. Date: Composed 1971. Dimensions: Overall size: 11 9/16 x 8 1/8 in. (294 x 206 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed and dated, lower right. Condition: some soft creasing and rippling, else very good. Comment(s): "Burri's art, so elegant and beautiful to modern eyes, was dramatically subversive in its day. Like Lucio Fontana, his better-known contemporary, Burri was there before arte povera with its humble materials; before Yves Klein with his fire paintings; before Gustav Metzger with his scorched plastic and acid. If he seems more poet than protester, never entirely abandoning canvas, paint and frame, Burri is nonetheless reaching beyond painting's conventional limits to give it a brave new repertoire." [courtesy Laura Cumming]. [26754-2-2400]