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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 28, 2017 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper | 159 | $****** - ****** | (i) Ambiente spaziale (Spatial Environment); (ii) Forma (Shape); (iii) Composizione astratta (Abstract Composition) |
Works on Paper
27.9 x 22.2 cm (11 x 8.75 in)
(i; ii) ballpoint pen on paper(iii) ink on paper
(i) signed ‘fon’ (lower left), signed and dated ‘fontan 49’ (lower right), (ii) titled ‘Forma’ (lower left), signed and dated ‘fon 46’ (lower right), (iii) signed 'Fontana' (lower right)
each: Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.
(i)
F. de Bartolomeis, Segno-antidisegno di Lucio Fontana, Turin 1967, fig. 74 (illustrated, unpaged).
Lo spazio dell’immagine, exh. cat., Foligno, Palazzo Trinci, 1967 (illustrated, p. 59).
Lucio Fontana, exh. cat., Milano, Palazzo Reale, 1972, no. 72 (illustrated, p. 26).
A. White, Lucio Fontana between Utopia and Kitsch, Massachutes-London 2011 (illustrated, p. 174).
L.M. Barbero (ed.), Lucio Fontana. Catalogo ragionato delle opere su carta, vol. II, Milan 2013, no. 49 DAS 20 (illustrated, p. 534).
(ii)
F. de Bartolomeis, Segno-antidisegno di Lucio Fontana, Turin 1967, fig. 52 (illustrated, unpaged).
G. Ballo, Lucio Fontana, idea per un ritratto, Turin 1970, no. 113 (illustrated, p. 99).
E. Crispolti, Omaggio a Fontana, Rome 1971, no. 86 (illustrated, p. 74).
Lucio Fontana, exh. cat., Milano, Palazzo Reale, 1972, no. 43 (illustrated, pp. 43-89)
Lucio Fontana, exh. cat., Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1987-1988 (illustrated, p. 97).
Lucio Fontana, ex. cat., Barcelona, Fundacío Caixa de Pension, 1988 (illustrated, p. 123).
F. de Bartolomeis, L’arte contemporanea e noi. L’amore é figurativo o astratto?, Florence 1994, no. 70 (illustrated, p. 257).
L.M. Barbero (ed.), Lucio Fontana. Catalogo ragionato delle opere su carta, vol. I, Milan 2013 (illustrated, p. 95); Vol. II, Milan 2013, no 46 DSP 1 (illustrated, p. 479).
(iii)
This work is registered in the Archivio Lucio Fontana, Milan, under no. 628/41.
(3)
