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Artists›Giuseppe Penone

Giuseppe Penone

1947

WA-00002922

SculptureArte Povera

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

207

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

80%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph

No influence edges encoded yet.

Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ568924

MoMA

Field Verification (6 fields)

3 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Primary mediumWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
Birth yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
BiographyWikipedia + Unknown· 88%✓
NationalityWikidata + Unknown· 92%
LocationWikidata· 80%
DeceasedUnknown· 20%

Source Registry (4)

Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/giuseppe-penone
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Gagosianhttps://gagosian.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Marian-Goodmanhttps://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/4550
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Giuseppe Penone yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Arte Povera

Medium

Sculpture

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (99)

WattsOS

Marble Skin and Acacia Thorns

2001 · Marble, canvas, synthetic polymer paint, and silk, with acacia thorns

35" x 9' 1" (88.9 x 276.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Una pelle di spine

2001 · Pressure-sensitive tape with ink and colored ink on paper

37 x 25" (94 x 63.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

[no title]

2000 · Etching on paper mounted onto paper

image: 192 x 147 mm support: 431 x 355 mm

Tate

[no title]

2000 · Etching on paper mounted onto paper

image: 192 x 147 mm support: 431 x 355 mm

Tate

[no title]

2000 · Etching on paper mounted onto paper

image: 192 x 147 mm support: 431 x 355 mm

Tate

[no title]

2000 · Etching on paper mounted onto paper

image: 192 x 147 mm support: 431 x 355 mm

Tate

[no title]

2000 · Etching on paper mounted onto paper

image: 192 x 147 mm support: 431 x 355 mm

Tate

[no title]

2000 · Etching on paper mounted onto paper

image: 192 x 147 mm support: 431 x 355 mm

Tate

[no title]

2000 · Etching on paper mounted onto paper

image: 192 x 147 mm support: 431 x 355 mm

Tate

[no title]

2000 · Etching on paper mounted onto paper

image: 192 x 147 mm support: 431 x 355 mm

Tate

[no title]

2000 · Etching on paper mounted onto paper

image: 192 x 147 mm support: 431 x 355 mm

Tate

[no title]

2000 · Etching on paper mounted onto paper

image: 192 x 147 mm support: 431 x 355 mm

Tate

[no title]

2000 · Etching on paper mounted onto paper

image: 192 x 147 mm support: 431 x 355 mm

Tate

Untitled from Passi Sulle Cime Dei Gelsi (Footsteps on Mulberry Tree Tops)

2000 · One from a portfolio of ten etching, aquatint and drypoints with chine collé; and twelve letterpress prints with artist's text

plate: 7 1/2 × 5 13/16" (19 × 14.7 cm); sheet: 16 15/16 × 14" (43.1 × 35.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Passi Sulle Cime Dei Gelsi (Footsteps on Mulberry Tree Tops)

2000 · Letterpress print from a portfolio of ten etching, aquatint and drypoints with chine collé; and twelve letterpress prints with artist's text

sheet: 16 15/16 × 14" (43.1 × 35.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Passi Sulle Cime Dei Gelsi (Footsteps on Mulberry Tree Tops)

2000 · One from a portfolio of ten etching, aquatint and drypoints with chine collé; and twelve letterpress prints with artist's text

plate: 7 1/2 × 5 13/16" (19 × 14.7 cm); sheet: 16 15/16 × 14" (43.1 × 35.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Passi Sulle Cime Dei Gelsi (Footsteps on Mulberry Tree Tops)

2000 · One from a portfolio of ten etching, aquatint and drypoints with chine collé; and twelve letterpress prints with artist's text

plate: 7 1/2 × 5 13/16" (19 × 14.7 cm); sheet: 16 15/16 × 14" (43.1 × 35.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Passi Sulle Cime Dei Gelsi (Footsteps on Mulberry Tree Tops)

2000 · One from a portfolio of ten etching, aquatint and drypoints with chine collé; and twelve letterpress prints with artist's text

plate: 7 1/2 × 5 13/16" (19 × 14.7 cm); sheet: 16 15/16 × 14" (43.1 × 35.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Passi Sulle Cime Dei Gelsi (Footsteps on Mulberry Tree Tops)

2000 · Letterpress print from a portfolio of ten etching, aquatint and drypoints with chine collé; and twelve letterpress prints with artist's text

sheet: 16 15/16 × 14" (43.1 × 35.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Passi Sulle Cime Dei Gelsi (Footsteps on Mulberry Tree Tops)

2000 · Letterpress print from a portfolio of ten etching, aquatint and drypoints with chine collé; and twelve letterpress prints with artist's text

sheet: 16 15/16 × 14" (43.1 × 35.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Passi Sulle Cime Dei Gelsi (Footsteps on Mulberry Tree Tops)

2000 · Letterpress print from a portfolio of ten etching, aquatint and drypoints with chine collé; and twelve letterpress prints with artist's text

sheet: 16 15/16 × 14" (43.1 × 35.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Passi Sulle Cime Dei Gelsi (Footsteps on Mulberry Tree Tops)

2000 · Letterpress print from a portfolio of ten etching, aquatint and drypoints with chine collé; and twelve letterpress prints with artist's text

sheet: 16 15/16 × 14" (43.1 × 35.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Passi Sulle Cime Dei Gelsi (Footsteps on Mulberry Tree Tops)

2000 · One from a portfolio of ten etching, aquatint and drypoints with chine collé; and twelve letterpress prints with artist's text

plate: 7 1/2 × 5 13/16" (19 × 14.7 cm); sheet: 16 15/16 × 14" (43.1 × 35.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Passi Sulle Cime Dei Gelsi (Footsteps on Mulberry Tree Tops)

2000 · Letterpress print from a portfolio of ten etching, aquatint and drypoints with chine collé; and twelve letterpress prints with artist's text

sheet: 16 15/16 × 14" (43.1 × 35.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (5)

99 published of 177 catalogued · 130 with image

MoMA
74 publishedof 148 catalogued102 img
Tate
16 published16 img
Art Institute Chicago
8 published8 img
The Met
1 published
+ 1 more source · 4 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 3)

3 entries · 1 sources

Study for ‘Breath of Clay’
1978 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
[no title]
2000 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
[no title]
2000 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

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Wikipedia

Relationships

Movements1

Arte Povera

Collections5

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate Christie's Gagosian

Institutional

Representation & Collections

Gallery

Gagosian

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Tate

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Auction house

Christie's

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Solo Exhibition Giuseppe Penone

2026