Lot 29
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LUCIO FONTANA | Concetto Spaziale, Attese

Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 GBP
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Description

  • Lucio Fontana
  • Concetto Spaziale, Attese
  • signed, partly titled and variously inscribed on the reverse 
  • waterpaint on canvas
  • 22.5 by 35.5 cm. 8 7/8 by 14 in.
  • Executed in 1961.

Provenance

Private Collection, Germany
Galerie Neher, Essen
Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 2010

Literature

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: Catalogo Ragionato, di Sculture, Dipinti e Ambientazioni, Vol. II, Milan 2006, p. 628, no. 61 T 109, illustrated

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Extremely close inspection in raking light reveals some minute specks of burnishing in isolated places to the extreme overturn edges. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra-violet light.
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Catalogue Note

"The discovery of the Cosmos is that of a new dimension, it is the Infinite: thus I pierce this canvas, which is the basis of all arts and I have created an infinite dimension, an x which for me is the basis for all Contemporary Art" (Lucio Fontana cited in: Exh. Cat., Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection (and travelling), Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York, 2006, p. 19).