Lot 36
  • 36

Lucio Fontana

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Lucio Fontana
  • Concetto Spaziale
  • incised with the artist's signature
  • painted terracotta
  • 37 by 28.5 cm. 14 1/2 by 11 1/4 in.
  • Executed circa 1961-62.

Provenance

Private Collection, Europe
Thence by descent to the present owner

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Very close inspection reveals a few small losses to the lower right edge. Further very close inspection reveals some tiny cracks in the paint in places to the protruding elements, and a few small and slightly lighter surface irregularities to the right side of the protruding element.
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Catalogue Note

“In future there will no longer be art the way we understand it today. I don’t know… colors and forms will be launched into the sky… And this will go for painting as well as for sculpture and architecture… No, art, the way we think about it today will cease… there’ll be something else. I make these cuts and these holes, these Attese and these Concetti… Compared to the Spatial era I am merely a man making signs in the sand. I made these holes. But what are they? They are the mystery of the Unknown in art, they are the Expectation of something that must follow.”

Lucio Fontana

quoted in: Exh. Cat., Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York, June 2006 - January 2007, p. 47