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Lucio Fontana

Concetto spaziale

Auction Closed

March 4, 09:10 PM GTNN

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 collects ion, 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