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Lucio Fontana

Concetto spaziale, Attese

Auction Closed

March 4, 08:29 PM GTNN

Estimate

3,200,000 - 5,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Lucio Fontana

1899 - 1968


Concetto spaziale, Attese

signed, titled and inscribed Oggi è una belissima giornata di sole [Today is a beautiful sunny day] (on the reverse)

waterpaint on canvas

81.3 by 65.1 cm. 32 by 25⅝ in.

Executed in 1965.

Mafalda Bacci Balducci collects ion, Milan

Brerarte, Milan, 27 October 1986, lot 75

Albert Totah Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)

Vivian Horan Replica Handbags , New York (acquired from the above in 2002)

Acquired from the above in May 2003 by the present owner 

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold, January – April 2019, no. 87, p. 187, illustrated in colour (titled Spatial Concept, Expectations)

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Sculptures et Environnements Spatiaux, vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 65 T 119, pp. 166-67, illustrated

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: Catalogo generale, vol. II, Milan 1986, no. 65 T 119, p. 581, illustrated

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo Ragionato di Sculture, Dipinti, Ambientazioni, vol. II, Milan 2006, no. 65 T 119, p. 767, illustrated