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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 6, 2016 | Christie's | London | The Italian Sale | 146 | $****** - ****** | Concetto spaziale, Teatrino |
paintings
130 x 128 cm (51.18 x 50.39 in)
waterpaint on canvas with lacquered wood
signed and titled ‘l. Fontana “Concetto Spaziale” (on the reverse)
Teresita Rasini Fontana Collection, Milan.
Augusto Cambi, Milan.Studio Mirabello, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1970s.
Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Lucio Fontana, 1970, no. 51 (illustrated, p. 108).
Wien, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Italienische Kunst heute, 1971.
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lucio Fontana 1899-1968. A retrospective, 1977, no. 102 (illustrated, p. 105).
Rimini, Sala Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Lucio Fontana. Mostra antologica, 1982, no. 19 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
Varese, Villa Mirabello, Lucio Fontana. Mostra antologica, 1985 (illustrated, unpaged).
Mantua, Casa del Mantegna, Lucio Fontana. Teatrini, 1997 (illustrated in colour, pp. 42-43).
Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Lucio Fontana, 1998, no. 4/P/26 (illustrated, p. 295).
Milan, Centenario di Lucio Fontana. Cinque mostre a Milano: Lucio Fontana. Idee e capolavori, 1999 (illustrated in colour, pp. 339, 349).
F. Elenberg, ‘Arte en Roma: dibujos y grabados de Lucio Fontana en el Instituto Italo Latino Americano’, in La Prensa, 6 August 1972.
Lucio Fontana. Opere grafiche, exh. cat., Rome, Istituto Italo-Latino Americano, 1972, fig. P. (illustrated, unpaged).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, vol. I, Brussels 1974, no. 65 TE 10 (illustrated, p. 91); vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 65 TE 10 (illustrated, p. 168).
C. Marsan, ‘La critica: Lucio Fontana’, in Il Giornale d’Italia, 4-5 June 1974 (illustrated).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana. Catalogo generale, vol. II, Milan 1986, no. 65 TE 10 (illustrated, p. 592)
G. Mazzotta (ed.), Lucio Fontana, Milan 1986, (illustrated in colour, p. 26).
G. Soavi, ‘Il maestro della lama’, in AD, May 1998 (illustrated in colour, p. 54).
F. Diwan, ‘Fontana’, in Grazia, 1 May 1998 (illustrated).
G. Ierano, ‘Un taglio al passato’, Carnet, April 1999 (illustrated in colour, p. 31).
E. Crispolti, Fontana, Milan 1999 (illustrated in colour, p. 227).
Lucio Fontana, metafore barocche, exh. cat., Verona, Palazzo Forti, 2002-2003 (illustrated p. 38)
E. Crispolti, Fontana: Catalogo Ragionato di Sculture, Dipinti, Ambientazioni, vol. II, Milan, 2006, no. 65 TE 10 (illustrated, p. 777).
signed and titled ‘l. Fontana “Concetto Spaziale” (on the reverse)
waterpaint on canvas with lacquered wood
51 1/8 x 50 3/8in. (130 x 128cm)
Executed in 1965
