Property of an Important Private Collector
Lucio Fontana
Concetto Spaziale
Auction Closed
March 6, 07:55 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200,000 - 1,800,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Lucio Fontana
1899 - 1968
Concetto Spaziale
signed and dated 56 (lower right); numbered 64 twice (on the stretcher); signed, titled and dated 56 (on the reverse)
oil and glass pebbles on canvas
80 by 65 cm. 31 ½ by 25 ⅝ in.
Executed in 1956.
Arturo Schwarz, Milan
Casoli, Milan
G. Testoni, Milan
Finarte, Milan, 23 October 1990, lot 753
Private Collection, Alte Montecchio (acquired by 1999)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2006)
Acquired from the above in July 2018 by the present owner
Saronno, Galleria Il Chiostro, Lucio Fontana, April – May 1993, n.p., illustrated in colour
Milan, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea; Milan, Triennale di Milano; Milan, Museo Diocesano; Milan, Accademia di Belle Arti de Brera and Milan, Museo Teatrale alla Scala, Centenario di Lucio Fontana. Cinque mostre a Milano, April – June 1999, no. I,100, p. 120, illustrated in colour (Italian version); no. 163, p. 170, illustrated in colour (English version)
Enrico Crispolti, ed., Fontana, Milan 1999, no. 163, p. 170, illustrated in colour
Enrico Crispolti, ed., Lucio Fontana, Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, vol. I, Milan 2006, no. 56 P 49, p. 290, illustrated