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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 4, 2019 | Christie's | London | Thinking Italian | 108 | $****** - ****** | La Silla Barocca | |||
Oct 5, 2017 | Sotheby's | London | In Context Italian Art | 35 | $****** - ****** | LA SILLA BARROCA |
sculpture
120 x 65 x 80 cm (47.24 x 25.59 x 31.5 in)
plaster
incised with the artist's signature and dated ‘46 L. FONTANA’ (on the base)
Pablo Edelstein Collection, Buenos Aires (acquired directly from the artist).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Buenos Aires, XXXVI Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1946, no. 32.
Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Lucio Fontana, 1998, no. 2/S/6 (illustrated, p. 127).
Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Borges, Museo Juan B. Castagnino, Lucio Fontana: Profeta del Espacio, 1999, no. 45 ESC 4 (illustrated, p. 97).
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold, 2019, p. 223, no. 23 (illustrated in colour, p. 99).
J. Corradini, "Lucio Fontana Profeta del Arte Espacial" in Histonium, A. VIII, No. 94, Buenos Aires, 1947 (illustrated, p. 168).
Continente, no. 50, 1951, no. 1 (illustrated, p. 104).
M. Tapié, Devenir de Fontana, 1961 (illustrated and dated 1945, unpaged).
M. Tapié, Fontana, 1962 (illustrated, unpaged).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, Vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 45 SC 4 (illustrated, p. 21).
E. Crispolti, Fontana, Catalogo Generale, Vol. I, Milan 1986, no. 45 SC 4 (illustrated, p. 84).
Lucio Fontana, exh. cat., Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1987, p. 366 (illustrated and dated 1945, p. 367).
E. Crispolti, Fontana, 1999, p. 289, no. 72 (illustrated and dated 1945, p. 26).
E. Crispolti, Centenario di Lucio Fontana, 1999 (illustrated and dated 1945, p. 34).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Obras maestras de la Fundación Lucio Fontana de Milàn, Buenos Aires 1999 (illustrated, p. 21).
Lucio Fontana, metafore barocche, exh. cat., Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Verona, 2002 (illustrated, p. 16).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, Vol. I, Milan 2006, no. 46 SC 16, (illustrated, p. 205).
incised with the artist's signature and dated ‘46 L. FONTANA’ (on the base)
plaster
47¼ x 25 7/8 x 31½in. (120 x 65 x 80cm.)
Executed in 1946
