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Property from the Rachofsky Collection, Dallas

Lucio Fontana

Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio

Estimate

20,000,000 - 30,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Rachofsky Collection, Dallas

Lucio Fontana

1899 - 1968


Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio

signed (upper left); signed (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

70 by 48 ½ in.

177.8 by 123 cm.

Executed in 1964.

Marlborough Gallery, Rome

Alexander Iolas Gallery, Athens 

Galerie Arditti, Paris 

Galleria Blu, Stockholm 

Anders Wall, Stockholm (acquired from the above circa 1970)

Sotheby's London, 25 June 2003, lot 15 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Enrico Crispolti, ed., Lucio Fontana: Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, Vol. II, Brussels, 1974, no. 64 FD 1, pp. 138-39, illustrated (additionally erroneously reproduced on p. 136 as 63 FD 18)

Enrico Crispolti, ed., Fontana, Catalogo generale, Vol. II, Milan, 1986, no. 64 FD 1, p. 472, illustrated

Enrico Crispolti, ed., Lucio Fontana, Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, Milan, 2006, no. 64 FD 1, p. CCXXVI, illustrated in color and p. 665, illustrated

Charissa Terranova, "Off the Wall: Modern of FW takes a different line on abstract painting," Dallas Morning News, 30 September 2007, p. 1E, illustrated in color

Peter Simek, "Inside Dallas’ Private Art Museums," D Magazine, 27 July 2015, illustrated in color (installed in Dallas, The Warehouse, 2015) (online)

Holland Cotter, "Slashing His Way to the Sublime," The New York Times, 24 January 2019, p. C23 (text) (print); illustrated in color (installed in New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019) (online)

Dallas Museum of Art, Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, November 2006 - May 2007, p. 161 (text), p. 168, illustrated in color and illustrated in color (on the poster for the exhibition)

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Declaring Space: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, September 2007 - January 2008, p. 109, illustrated in color 

Dallas Museum of Art, Private Universes, May - August 2009

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Lucio Fontana: Ambienti Spaziali, May - June 2012, no. 335, p. 307, illustrated in color

Dallas, The Warehouse, Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, February 2013 - February 2014, illustrated in color (on the cover and inside front cover), pp. 36-37, illustrated in color (detail) and p. 38, illustrated in color

Dallas, The Warehouse, Geometries On and Off The Grid: Art from 1950 to The Present, February - December 2015, p. 111, illustrated in color (detail), p. 179, illustrated in color (in installation) and p. 188, illustrated in color

Dallas, The Warehouse, Doubles, Dobros, Pliegues, Pares, Twins, Mitades, July 2017 - April 2018, p. 67, illustrated in color (in installation)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold, January - April 2019, p. 60, illustrated in color (detail) and p. 158, illustrated in color

Dallas, The Warehouse, Open Storage: 25 Years Of Collecting, August 2022 - April 2023, p. 9, illustrated in color