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Lucio Fontana

Concetto spaziale

Auction Closed

March 4, 09:10 PM GMT

Estimate

700,000 - 1,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Lucio Fontana

1899 - 1968


Concetto spaziale

signed, titled and dated 1955 (on the reverse)

oil, sand and glass pebbles on canvas

81 by 65 cm. 31⅞ by 25⅝ in.

Executed in 1955. 

Philippe Dotrémont, Brussels

Galerie Alfred Schmela, Dusseldorf

Private Collection, Cologne (acquired from the above in 1967)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Munich, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst; Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe; and Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, Lucio Fontana, December 1983 – September 1984, no. 31, p. 59, illustrated (incorrect orientation)

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Sculptures et Environnements Spatiaux, vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 55 P 34, p. 37, illustrated

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Generale, vol. I, Milan 1986, no. 55 P 34, p. 136, illustrated

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Ragionato di Sculture, Dipinti, Ambientazioni, vol. I, Milan 2006, no. 55 P 34, p. 278, illustrated