20th Century Italian Art

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Lot 24
  • 24

Lucio Fontana

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Lucio Fontana
  • Concetto Spaziale

  • signed

  • watercolour and graffiti on paper
  • 66 by 46cm.
  • 26 by 18in.
  • Executed circa 1965.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by Alfred Otto Müller in 1969

Catalogue Note

This work is registered in the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan 

"...People think it's easy to make a cut or a hole, but it's not true. You have no idea how much stuff I throw away. The idea has to be executed with precision..."
(Lucio Fontana quoted in Guido Ballo, Fontana: idea per un ritratto, Turin 1970, p.45)