This department selects the most important Italian and international artworks from the main forms of artistic expression in the twentieth century: painting, drawing, ceramics and sculpture. These range from paintings by artists such as Bernard Buffet, Giorgio De Chirico and Mario Schifano to prints by Salvador Dalì, Marc Chagall, Joan Mirò, Antonio Ligabue; from Alberto Martini's ink illustrations to Pablo Picasso's ceramics. The opening of this new department dedicated to twentieth-century art and the announcement of the first sale in 2016, joining Artissima as a new art event in Turin, immediately aroused interest from collectors and enthusiasts.
The spring auction of modern and contemporary art held on 19 May 2022 in Turin, closed with a record result: Antonio Ligabue's oil on panel painting from the early 1950s, Leopard with snake (Lot 79), fetched 344,750 euros (including buyer's premium), a paradigmatic work in Ligabue's career that equalled the highest price achieved in 2019 by one of the his famous self-portraits. On November 5, 2024, after an intense "battle" in the auction room, Alighiero Boetti’s tapestry Senza titolo (Segno e disegno, 1978) was sold for the extraordinary sum of 800,000 euros (including buyer's premium). This remarkable result confirms Aste Bolaffi’s ability to identify high-caliber artworks and make them accessible to the most refined and demanding buyers on the international market.  

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