Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts

Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts

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Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts

Lucio Fontana

Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio

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12,000,000 - 18,000,000 USD

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Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts

Lucio Fontana

1899 - 1968


Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio

signed (on the reverse)

oil and glitter on canvas

70 ⅛ by 48 ⅜ in.

178 by 123 cm.

Executed in 1963.

Giuseppina Traversa, Turin (by 1974)

Sergio Casoli, Milan (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above in 2002 by the present owner

Enrico Crispolti, Carriera "barocca” di Fontanai, No. 10, Milan 1963, p. XIV, illustrated (in the artist's studio in progress in 1963)

Willy Rotzler, "Lucio Fontana und die Verlockungen des Nichts," du, February 1969, p. 107, illustrated in color (in the artist's studio in progress in 1963)

Guido Ballo, Lucio Fontana, New York 1971, n.p., illustrated (in the artist's studio in progress) and p. 218, illustrated in color (in the artist's studio in progress in 1963)

Enrico Crispolti, ed., Omaggio a Lucio Fontana, 1971, p. 219, illustrated (in the artist's studio in progress)

Enrico Crispolti, ed., Lucio Fontana: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Sculptures et Environnements Spatiaux, vol. I, Brussels 1974, no. 63 FD 3, p. 78, illustrated in color and p. 134 (text)

Enrico Crispolti, ed., Lucio Fontana: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Sculptures et Environnements Spatiaux, vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 63 FD 3, pp. 136-37, illustrated

Enrico Crispolti, ed., Fontana, Catalogo generale, vol. II, Milan 1986, no. 63 FD 3, p. 462, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou (and traveling), Lucio Fontana: 1899-1968, 1987-88, p. 20, illustrated (in the artist's studio in progress in 1963)

Exh. Cat., Saronno, Galleria Il Chiostro, Lucio Fontana, 1993, illustrated in color (on the cover) (in the artist's studio in progress in 1963)

Enrico Crispolti, ed., Lucio Fontana, Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, Milan 2006, no. 63 FD 3, p. 650, illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold, 2019, p. 156, illustrated in color (in the artist's studio in progress in 1963)

Turin, Galleria d'Arte Martano, Lucio Fontana: Opere 1931-1968, October - November 1969, no. 19, n.p., illustrated

Boissano, Centre International d'Expérimentation Artistique Marie-Louise Jeanneret, Omaggio a Fontana, July - August 1983, no. 8, p. 15, illustrated in color

Zurich, de Pury & Luxembourg, Lucio Fontana, October - December 2002, no. 1, n.p., illustrated in color (in installation)

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