Beyond the Canvas: Masterpieces from a Private German Collection
Lucio Fontana
Concetto spaziale, Attesa
Auction Closed
March 4, 09:10 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Lucio Fontana
1899 - 1968
Concetto spaziale, Attesa
signed, partially titled and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
unprimed canvas
100 by 79.5 cm. 39⅜ by 31¼ in.
Executed in 1960.
McRoberts & Tunnard Gallery, London
Galerie Alfred Schmela, Dusseldorf
Private Collection, Cologne (acquired from the above in 1967)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Lucio Fontana – Concetti spaziali, March – June 1967, no. 41, n.p., illustrated (incorrectly dated 1961)
Wuppertal, Kunst- und Museumsverein, Hommage à Fontana, September – November 1969, no. 17, p. 9 (checklist)
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Sculptures et Environnements Spatiaux, vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 60 T 17, p. 93, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Generale, vol. I, Milan 1986, no. 60 T 17, p. 315, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Ragionato di Sculture, Dipinti, Ambientazioni, vol. I, Milan 2006, no. 60 T 17, p. 485, illustrated