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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2020 | Concetto Spaziale, Natura | 1 | Bonhams | London | |||
sculpture
41 x 51 x 47 cm (16.14 x 20.08 x 18.5 in)
bronze
incised with the artist's initials and numbered 1/2 on the underside
Teresita Rasini Fontana Collection, Milan
Marlborough Gallery, Rome
Kasper Koenig, Cologne
Private Collection
Sale: Sotheby's, London, The Italian Sale, 7 October 2016, Lot 40
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner
Krefeld, Galerie Merian Edition, Lucio Fontana, 1899-1968, 1973, n.p., another example illustrated in black and white
Caracas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Lucio Fontana, 1974-1975, no. 32 (another example exhibited)
Verbania-Pallanza, Museo del Paesaggio, Biennale Internazionale di scultura contemporanea, Aptico: Il Senso della Scultura, 1976 (another example exhibited)
Milan, Palazzo Reale, La Donazione Lucio Fontana: proposta per una sistemazione museografica, 1979, p. 107, no. 74, illustrated in black and white (terracotta version)
Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Fontana, 1980, p. 64, no. 38, another example illustrated in black and white
Milan, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Pubblico Privato, Omaggio al Mecenatismo, 1981 (another example exhibited)
Milan, Palazzo della Permanente, Il segno della pittura e della scultura, 1983, no. 1 (not illustrated), p. 56, illustrated in black and white (installation view, terracotta version)
Milan, CIMAC, Civico Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo Reale, Arte italiana 1900-1980, 1984 (terracotta version)
Tokyo, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Seibu-Ikebukuro, Fontana, 1984, n.p., no. 21, another example illustrated in black and white
Bologna, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Scultura e ceramica in Italia nel Novecento, 1989, p. 85, no. 52, illustrated in black and white (installation view, terracotta version)
Milan, Palazzo della Permanente, Scultura a Milano 1945-1990, 1990, pp. 65 and 174, illustrated in black and white (terracotta version)
Tokyo, The Yomiuri Shimbun and Mitsukoshi Museum; Kagoshima, Museo Municipale d'Arte; Nishinomiya, Otani Museum of Art, Lucio Fontana, La penetrazione dello spazio, 1992, p. 107, no. 76, another example illustrated in black and white
Varese, Castello di Masnago, Scultura a Varese, dal verismo a oggi, 1994, no. 45 (another example exhibited)
Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Fontana, 1994-1995, p. 129, no. 81, another example illustrated in colour (installation view)
Venice, Giardini di Castello, Padiglione Italia, La Biennale di Venezia, 46° Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte. Identitá e alteritá, figure del corpo 1895-1995, 1995, p. 514, no. IX 21, another example illustrated in black and white
Prato, Museo Pecci, Burri e Fontana 1949-1968, 1996, p. 169, no. 30, illustrated in colour (terracotta version)
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Lucio Fontana, Retrospektive, 1996 – 1997, p. 201, no. 161, another example illustrated in colour
Palma de Mallorca, Fundación La Caixa; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Lucio Fontana, Entre matéria y espacio, 1998, p. 105, no. 56, another example illustrated in colour
Milan, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea; Triennale di Milano; Museo Diocesano; Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera; Museo Teatrale alla Scala; Centenario di Lucio Fontana, 1999, pp. 58 and 124, nos. I, 114; IV, 18, another example illustrated in black and white and in colour
London, Hayward Gallery, Lucio Fontana, 1999-2000, p. 35, no. 17, illustrated in black and white (installation view, terracotta version)
Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil; São Paulo, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Lucio Fontana, A òtica do invisivel, 2001-2002, p. 131, another example illustrated in colour
Burgdorf, Museum Franz Gertsch, Lucio Fontana, 2004, p. 141, no. 94, another example illustrated in colour
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Lucio Fontana, Ambiente Spaziali, 2012, p. 257, no. 281, another example illustrated in colour
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Lucio Fontana, 2014, no. 148 (another example exhibited)
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogue raisonné des peintures et environments spatiaux, II, Brussels 1974, p 107, no. 59/60 N 25, illustrated in black and white (terracotta version)
Enrico Crispolti, Erotismo nell'arte astratta (e altre schede per una iconologia dell'arte astratta), Trapani 1976, no. 9, illustrated in black and white (terracotta version)
Enrico Crispolti, Fontana, Catalogo Generale, Volume primo, Milan 1986, p. 356, no. 59-60 N 25, illustrated (terracotta version)
Enrico Crispolti, Fontana, Milan 1999, p. 194, no. 202, illustrated in colour (terracotta version)
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, Tomo I, Milan 2006, p. 536, no. 59-60 N 25, illustrated in black and white (terracotta version)
1959-1960
incised with the artist's initials and numbered 1/2 on the underside
bronze
41 by 51 by 47 cm.
16 1/8 by 20 1/16 by 18 1/2 in.
This work was conceived in 1959-1960 and cast at a later date. This work is number 1 from and edition of 2, plus 1 artist's proof.
