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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 13, 2024 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Evening Auction | 112 | $****** - ****** | Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio | |||
Jun 25, 2003 | Sotheby's | London | Contemporary Art - Evening Sale | 15 | $****** - ****** | Concetto Spaziale, La fine de dio |
paintings
177.8 x 123.2 cm (70 x 48.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed (upper left); signed (on the reverse)
Marlborough Gallery, Rome
Alexander Iolas Gallery, Athens
Galerie Arditti, Paris
Galleria Blu, Stockholm
Anders Wall, Stockholm (acquired from the above circa 1970)
Sotheby"s London, 25 June 2003, lot 15 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Dallas Museum of Art, Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, November 2006 - May 2007, p. 161 (text), p. 168, illustrated in color and illustrated in color (on the poster for the exhibition)
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Declaring Space: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, September 2007 - January 2008, p. 109, illustrated in color
Dallas Museum of Art, Private Universes, May - August 2009
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Lucio Fontana: Ambienti Spaziali, May - June 2012, no. 335, p. 307, illustrated in color
Dallas, The Warehouse, Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, February 2013 - February 2014, illustrated in color (on the cover and inside front cover), pp. 36-37, illustrated in color (detail) and p. 38, illustrated in color
Dallas, The Warehouse, Geometries On and Off The Grid: Art from 1950 to The Present , February - December 2015, p. 111, illustrated in color (detail), p. 179, illustrated in color (in installation) and p. 188, illustrated in color
Dallas, The Warehouse, Doubles, Dobros, Pliegues, Pares, Twins, Mitades, July 2017 - April 2018, p. 67, illustrated in color (in installation)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold, January - April 2019, p. 60, illustrated in color (detail) and p. 158, illustrated in color
Dallas, The Warehouse, Open Storage: 25 Years Of Collecting , August 2022 - April 2023, p. 9, illustrated in color
Enrico Crispolti, ed., Lucio Fontana: Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, Vol. II, Brussels, 1974, no. 64 FD 1, pp. 138-39, illustrated (additionally erroneously reproduced on p. 136 as 63 FD 18)
Enrico Crispolti, ed., Fontana, Catalogo generale, Vol. II, Milan, 1986, no. 64 FD 1, p. 472, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, ed., Lucio Fontana, Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, Milan, 2006, no. 64 FD 1, p. CCXXVI, illustrated in color and p. 665, illustrated
Charissa Terranova, "Off the Wall: Modern of FW takes a different line on abstract painting," Dallas Morning News , 30 September 2007, p. 1E, illustrated in color
Peter Simek, "Inside Dallas" Private Art Museums," D Magazine , 27 July 2015, illustrated in color (installed in Dallas, The Warehouse, 2015) (online)
Holland Cotter, "Slashing His Way to the Sublime," The New York Times, 24 January 2019, p. C23 (text) (print); illustrated in color (installed in New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019) (online)
Property from the Rachofsky Collection, Dallas
Lucio Fontana
1899 - 1968
Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio
signed (upper left); signed (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
70 by 48 ½ in.
177.8 by 123 cm.
Executed in 1964.
