Lucio Fontana

Dotrémont Collection, Brussels 

Renée Lachowsky, Brussels

Pierre Janlet, Brussels (acquired from the above in the late 1970s)

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above by descent)

Sotheby's London, 26 June 2002, lot 14 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Centro Internazionale delle Arte e del Costume, Arti e Contemplazione, July - October 1961

New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, Lucio Fontana: Ten Paintings of Venice, November - December 1961, no. 7, n.p., illustrated in color

Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, Lucio Fontana, September - November 1972, no. 56, p. 55, illustrated

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York, June 2006 - January 2007, p. 30, illustrated (installed Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 1961), pp. 36, 39 (text) and pp. 88-89, illustrated in color

New York, Dominique Lévy, Audible Presence: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Cy Twombly, September - November 2013, p. 42, illustrated (installed Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 1961), pp. 40-41, illustrated in color (detail) and p. 43, illustrated in color

Michel Tapié, Devenir de Fontana, Turin 1961, n.p., illustrated in color

"The Geijutsu-Shinco," No. 12, Tokyo 1962, p. 6, illustrated in color

Enrico Crispolti, ed., Lucio Fontana: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Sculptures et Environnements Spatiaux, Vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 61 O 44, p. 110, illustrated and p. 133 (text)

Enrico Crispolti, ed., Fontana, Catalogo generale, Vol. I, Milan 1986, no. 61 O 44, p. 23 (text) and p. 372, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Vicenza, Basilica Palladiana, Spazialismo: Arte astratta, 1996-97, p. 13 (text)

Enrico Crispolti, ed., Lucio Fontana, Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, Vol. II, Milan 2006, no. 61 O 44, p. 73 (text) and p. 555, illustrated

Steven Jacobs et al., Bozar LXXX, Brussels 2008, p. 513, illustrated

Pia Gottschaller, Lucio Fontana: The Artist's Materials, Los Angeles 2012, fig. 86, p. 102 (text) and p. 103, illustrated in color

Rachel Small, "An Audible Presence in New York," Interview Magazine, 18 September 2013 (text) (online)

Lili Rosboch, "Kate Moss Overalls, Blue Rain, Edmund de Waal: Uptown Art," Bloomberg Business Week, 24 September 2013 (text) (online)

Daniel Creahan, "New York: 'Audible Presence: Fontana Klein Twombly' at Dominique Lévy Through November 16th, 2013," Art Observed, 26 September 2013, illustrated in color (online)

Holly Brubach, "An Eye for Beauty," W Magazine, 28 April 2014, illustrated in color (installed in de Gunzburg residence, 2014) (detail) (online)

Claire Wrathall, "Art is Where the Home is," Beauty of Brutalism, September 2022, p. 66, illustrated in color (installed in de Gunzburg residence, 2022) (online)

Magda Michalska, "Lucio Fontana and the Venice You Have Never Known," Daily Art Magazine, 20 November 2023, illustrated in color (online)

Jacoba Urist, "Purple Reign," Financial Times, 21 February 2026, p. 8, illustrated in color (installed in de Gunzburg residence, 2026)