Lot 39
  • 39

Lucio Fontana

Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 GBP
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Description

  • Lucio Fontana
  • Concetto Spaziale
  • signed
  • holes and graffiti on copper

  • 198 by 98cm.
  • 78 by 38 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 1964.

Provenance

Galleria del Leone, Venice
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1970

Exhibited

Barcelona, Fundacío Caixa de Barcelona; Madrid, Fundacío Juan March, Zero, un Movimiento Europeo: Coleccíon Lenz Schönberg, 1988
Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, ZERO. Vision und Bewegung. Werke aus der Sammlung Lenz Schönberg, 1988, p. 57, illustrated in colour
Moscow, Zentrales Künstlerhaus, Sammlung Lenz Schönberg. Eine europäische Bewegung in der bildenden Kunst von 1958 bis heute, 1989, p. 192, illustrated in colour
Warsaw, Galeria Zachęta, Sammlung Lenz Schönberg. Aus der Stille der Zeit - über die Grenzen von Raum, 1992, p. 104, illustrated
Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Raum-Bilder, 2002-03
Zagreb, Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, ZERO. Die europäische Vision - 1958 bis heute. Sammlung Lenz Schönberg, 2004, p. 63, illustrated
Salzburg, Museum der Moderne, ZERO. Künstler einer europäischen Bewegung. Sammlung Lenz Schönberg 1956-2006, 2006, p. 47, illustrated in colour
Düsseldorf, Stiftung museum kunst palast; Saint-Etienne, Musée d'Art Moderne , ZERO: Internationale Künstler-Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre, 2006-07, p. 315, illustrated 

Literature

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo Generale, Vol. II, Milan 1986, p. 421, no. 64 ME 7, illustrated
Annette Kuhn, Zero Avantgarde der sechziger Jahre, Berlin 1991, p. 141, no. 102, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo Ragionato, Vol. II, Milan 2006, p. 606, no. 64 ME 7, illustrated
Anna and Gerhard Lenz with Ulrike Bleicker-Honisch, Epoche Zero. Sammlung Lenz Schönberg. Leben in Kunst, Volume I, Ostfildern 2009, p. 85, no. FO-04, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the illustration fails to convey the sculptural and reflective nature of the work. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There are two very minor diagonal scratches extending approximately 3cm and 6cm towards the centre of the copper sheet, which appear inherent to the artist's working process Close inspection reveals some minute areas of oxidation to the inside recesses of the bucchi and very light handling marks to the left and right edges.
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Catalogue Note

'New York is more Beautiful than Venice!!
The skyscrapers of glass look like great cascades of water
That fall from the sky!!
At night it is a huge necklace of rubies, sapphire, and emeralds!.' The artist in a postcard to the Bardini family mailed in New York on 24 November 1961