Contemporary Evening

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Lot 40
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Lucio Fontana

Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 GBP
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Description

  • Lucio Fontana
  • Concetto Spaziale, Teatrino
  • signed and titled on the reverse
  • waterpaint on canvas and lacquered wood
  • 130 by 130 by 6.5cm.
  • 51 1/4 by 51 1/4 by 2 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 1965.

Provenance

Galerie Bonnier, Geneva
Pierre-A. Linedjian, Lausanne

Literature

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. II, Brussels 1974, pp. 172 & 173, no. 65 TE 57, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo Generale, Vol. II, Milan 1986, p. 603, no. 65 TE 57, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo Ragionato, Vol. II, Milan 2006, p. 792, no. 65 TE 57, illustrated

Catalogue Note

"In the Teatrini it is possible to achieve a sort of contemporary unity between image, object, material and that 'philosophical' state to which the artist often draws attention as the new idea. The man in space is alone, alone facing infinity." (Lucio Fontana [trans.] in Exhibition Catalogue, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Lucio Fontana, 1998, p. 245)