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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 15, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts | 11 | $****** - ****** | Concetto spaziale, Teatrino | |||
Jun 27, 1996 | Christie's | London | Contemporary Art | 60 | Estimates not disclosed | Concetto spaziale, Teatrino |
paintings
146.2 x 164 cm (57.56 x 64.57 in)
waterpaint on canvas and lacquered wood
signed and titled (on the reverse)
Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris
Private Collection
Christie"s London, 27 June 1996, lot 60 (consigned by the above)
Helly Nahmad Gallery, London
de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich
Acquired from the above in 2002 by the present owner
Zurich, de Pury & Luxembourg, Lucio Fontana, October - December 2002, no. 29, n.p., illustrated
Maurizio Calvesi, "Fontana "65," Marcatré , Nos. 16-18, July-September 1965, p. 342, illustrated (detail)
Franco Rusoli, "Fontana e il Giuoco dell"Arte," Pirelli , No. 5-6, October-December 1965, p. 98, illustrated in color
"Novita nello Studio di Fontana," Domus , No. 433, December 1965, p. 47, illustrated (in the artist"s studio)
Juan Perucho, "Las Aquafuertes de Lucio Fontana," Destino , 4 June 1966, illustrated
Juan Eduardo Cirlot, Lucio Fontana: Colección Nueva órbita, 1966, pp. 46-47, illustrated
Maurizio Fagiolo dell"Arco, Rapporto "60, Rome 1966, p. 81, illustrated
Angela Crespo, "El Pensamiento y la Obra de Lucio Fontana," Forma Nueva / El Inmeuble, March 1967, no. 14, p. 53, illustrated
Giulio Bolaffi, Catalogo Bolaffi d"Arte Moderna 1968, Turin 1967, p. 122, illustrated
Willy Rotzler, "Lucio Fontana und die Verlockungen des Nichts," Du, February 1969, p. 113, illustrated in color
"Nac," No. 31, Milan, 15 February 1970, p. 6, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti , Omaggio a Fontana, Assi, Rome 1971, no. 232, p. 218, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, "Lucio Fontana: Sfida all"Imagine," Il Margutta , No. 4, April 1972, p. 3, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, ed., Lucio Fontana: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Sculptures et Environnements Spatiaux, vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 65 TE 31, p. 170, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, ed., Fontana, Catalogo generale, vol. II, Milan 1986, no. 65 TE 31, p. 597, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo Ragionato di Sculture, Dipinti, Ambientazioni , vol. II, Milan 2006, no. 65 TE 31, p. 784, illustrated
Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts
Lucio Fontana
1899 - 1968
Concetto spaziale, Teatrino
signed and titled (on the reverse)
waterpaint on canvas and lacquered wood
55 ⅝ by 64 ⅝ in.
146.2 by 164 cm.
Executed in 1965.
