Oggi diciannovesimo giorno ottavo mese dell'anno millenove100ottantotto (Today the Nineteenth Day of the Eighth Month of the Year OneThousandNine100Eighty-Eight), 1988

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Medium

cotton embroidery (Bokhara couching) on cotton/linen fabric

Dimensions

overall: 112.5 × 104 cm (44 5/16 × 40 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Collectors Committee

Accession Number

2020.103.1

Artists / Makers

Alighiero Boetti (artist) Italian, 1940 - 1994

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Inscription

center right, Farsi text woven horizontally in black. (Translation: in Afghanistan the opening day of Independence Day celebrations); center left, Farsi text woven horizontally in black. (Translation: always with the ancient equestrian game of Buzkashi) The two horizontal texts read continuously right to left.

upper center, Farsi text woven vertically in yellow. (Translation from top to bottom: It appeared more beautiful. Calligraphy by Javid); lower center, Farsi text woven vertically in yellow. (Translation from top to bottom: embroidery/needlepoint Alighiero Boetti)

lower left reverse (currently, due to border being folded over stretcher; previously, lower right): by AFGHAN PEOPLE; lower right reverse (currently, due to border being folded over stretcher; previously, lower left): PESHAWAR 88

Provenance

The artist;[1] acquired 1988 by private collection, Milan; (Ben Brown Fine Arts, London and Hong Kong); purchased 2020 by NGA.

[1] Embroidered by Afghan women artisans in Peshawar, Pakistan, after a design by Boetti.

Associated Names

Ben Brown Fine Arts
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)

Exhibition History

Alighiero Boetti, Embroideries Including Mappas, Tuttos and a Rug, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 2019

Bibliography

2019: Guadagnini, Walter. Fontana e Milano: continuità di una storia. Milan, 2019: 231, repro.