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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 8, 2017 | Christie's | London | Post War & Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 19 | $****** - ****** | Concetto spaziale, Attese |
paintings
100 x 80 cm (39.38 x 31.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed, titled and numbered 'l Fontana 'Concetto spaziale' ATTESE 1+1-37HI0'
Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan
Federico Zaina, Trecate.
Galeria Narciso, Turin.
Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York.
Albert Totah, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004.
Turin, Galleria Martano/Due, Lucio Fontana: Opere 1931-1968, 1969, no. 21 (illustrated, unpaged).
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Lucio Fontana Retrospective, 1996-1997, no. 140 (illustrated in colour, p. 183). This exhibition later travelled to Vienna, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig.
Parma, Galleria d’arte Niccoli, L’informale italiano pittura di segno e di materia negli anni cinquanta, 1997 -1998 (illustrated in colour, p. 77).
Palma, Fundación ‘la Caixa’ en las Illes Balears, Lucio Fontana, Entre materia y espacio, 1998, p. 132, no. 44 (illustrated with incorrect orientation in colour, p. 93). This exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.
London, Hayward Gallery, Lucio Fontana, 1999- 2000, p. 205, no. 70 (illustrated in colour, p. 129).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 61 T 18 (illustrated p. 127).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana catalogo generale, vol. II, Milan 1986, no. 61 T 18 (illustrated with incorrect orientation, p. 426).
E. Crispolti, 'E l'infinito divenne gesto', in l'Unità, 30 September 1996 (illustrated, p. 2).
M. Grazia Messina, 'Milano anni '50: la pittura rivoluziona il linguaggio' in l'Unità, 24 July 1997 (illustrated).
R. Diez, ‘Arte e Mercato – Investimenti- Lucio Fontana. Attenti ai « tagli »’ in ARTE, no. 319, December 1999 (illustrated, p. 241).
C. Pickstone, ‘Not quite letting go of God : Lucio Fontana at the Hayward’, in The Month, December 1999 (illustrated with incorrect orientation, p. 494).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, vol. II, Milan 2006, no. 61 T 18 (illustrated, p. 614).
