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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 27, 2008 | Sotheby's | London | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 16 | Estimates not disclosed | Concetto spaziale/La fine di Dio |
paintings
178 x 123 cm (70.08 x 48.43 in)
waterpaint, oil and glitter on canvas
signed verso; inscribed titled, verso
Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Rome A. Spada, Brescia
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in the 1980s
Buenos Aires, Centro de Artes Visuales del Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Lucio Fontana, 1966, no. 50 Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Austin, University of Texas Art Museum, Lucio Fontana. The Spatial Concept of Art, 1966, no. 56 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Lucio Fontana - Concetti Spaziali, 1967, no. 50 Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Fontana, 1967, illustrated in color Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Fontana: Idéer om rymden, 1967, no. 43 Freiburg, Kunstverein Freiburg im Bresgau, Lucio Fontana, 1968, illustrated Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Lucio Fontana, 1968, no. 43, illustrated in color Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery, Lucio Fontana, 1986, pl. 17, illustrated in color Madrid, Galería Theo, Fontana. Works 1960-1968, 1987, no. 6, illustrated in color Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Rheinhallen, Bilderstreit. Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960, 1989, p. 513, no. 213
Ulf Linde, 'Lucio Fontana', in: 'Dagens Nyheter', 26 August 1967, Stockholm, illustrated Enrico Crispolti, Omaggio a Fontana, Rome 1971, p. 208, no. 221 Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. II, Brussels 1974, pp. 138-139, no. 63 FD 30, illustrated Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo Generale, Vol. II, Milan 1986, p. 471, no. 63 FD 30, illustrated Exhibition Catalogue, Toyama, Museum of Modern Art; Karuizawa, Museum of Modern Art Seibu Takanawa; Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art; Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum; Amagasaki, Seibu Tsukashin, Lucio Fontana 1899-1968, 1986, p. 130, illustrated José Manuel Costa, 'Fontana. Galería Theo' in: ABC, Madrid, 29 October 1987, p. 142, illustrated Severo Sarduy, 'Seis lacerationes en pleno color' in: Diario 16, Madrid, 31 October 1987, illustrated Anon., 'Lucio Fontana. Ni pintura, ni escultura, sino formas' in: Lapiz, December 1987, illustrated Anon., 'Las distintas formulas de una teoría. Una visión de la obra de Lucio Fontana' in: Diario 16, Barcelona, 18 February 1988, illustrated Exhibition Catalogue, Milan, Amedeo Porro Arte moderna e contemporanea, Carriera "barocca" di Fontana. Taccuino critico 1959-2004 e Carteggio 1958-1967, 2004, p. 371, illustrated Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo Ragionato, Vol. II, Milan 2006, p. 663, no. 63 FD 30, illustrated
