Beyond the Canvas: Masterpieces from a Private German collects ion
Lucio Fontana
Concetto spaziale
Auction Closed
March 4, 09:10 PM GTNN
Estimate
8,500,000 - 12,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Lucio Fontana
1899 - 1968
Concetto spaziale
incised with the artist's signature and dated 60 (lower right); signed, titled and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
200 by 205 cm. 78¾ by 80¾ in.
Executed in 1960.
Galerie Alfred Schmela, Dusseldorf
Private collects ion, Cologne (acquired from the above in 1963)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Strutture e stile. Pitture e sculture di 42 artisti d'Europa, America e Giappone, June – August 1962, p. 70, illustrated in colour
Bochum, Städtische Kunstgalerie Bochum, Profile I: Strukturen und Stile: Michel Tapié, January – November 1963, n.p. (checklist) (incorrectly dated 1961)
Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Dusseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus rheinisch-westfälischen Privatbesitz: Malerei, Plastik, Handzeichnungen, April – June 1967, no. 98, p. 36 (checklist)
Wuppertal, Kunst- und Museumsverein Wuppertal, Hommage à Fontana, September – November 1969, no. 23, p. 9 (checklist)
Cologne, Messegelände, Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, May – August 1981, no. 532, p. 195, illustrated in colour, and p. 430, illustrated
Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange, Im weißen Raum, Lucio Fontana / Yves Klein, November 1994 – February 1995, no. 20, p. 97, illustrated in colour
Toni Toniato, “Lucio Fontana,” Evento delle arti, no. 14-15, September 1961, p. 55, illustrated (reverse orientation)
Michel Tapié, Devenir de Fontana, Turin 1961, p. 77, illustrated in colour
Michel Tapié, Manifest Indirect dans un Temps Autre, Turin 1961, no. 19, p. 36, illustrated
Yoshiaki Tono, “Lucio Fontana,” Mizue, no. 682, January 1962, p. 39, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Sculptures et Environnements Spatiaux, vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 60 O 49, p. 74, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez, Lucio Fontana: El Espacio Como Exploracion, 1982, p. 74, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Generale, vol. I, Milan 1986, no. 60 O 49, p. 260, illustrated
Luigi Moretti, Michel Tapié and Friedrich Bayl, Museé-Manifeste: Structures et Styles Autres, Turin 1962, n.p., illustrated in colour
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, vol. I, Milan 2006, no. 60 O 49, p. 424, illustrated
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