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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 12, 2025 | Christie's | New York | 20th Century Evening Sale | 67A | $****** - ****** | Concetto spaziale, In piazza San Marco di notte con Teresita |
paintings
149.9 x 149.9 cm (59 x 59 in)
acrylic and colored glass stones on canvas
incised with the artist"s signature ‘l. fontana" (lower right); signed and titled ‘l. fontana Concetto Spaziale, In piazza San Marco di notte con Teresita" (on the reverse)
Toninelli Arte Moderna, Milan
Private collection, Milan
Anon. sale; Christie"s, London, 6 October 2017, lot 106
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Venice, Centro Internazionale delle Arti e del Costume, Palazzo Grassi, Arte e Contemplazione , October 1961, n.p. (titled Piazza San Marco di notte con Teresita ).
Milan, Palazzo Reale Comune di Milano, Lucio Fontana , April-June 1972, n.p., no. 160 (illustrated; titled Concetto spaziale ).
Kunsthaus Zurich, Lucio Fontana: Concetti spaziali , April-May 1976, p. 36, no. 72.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lucio Fontana 1899-1968: A Retrospective , October-December 1977, p. 75, no. 69 (illustrated).
Madrid, Palacio de Velàzquez, Lucio Fontana: El espacio como exploración , April-June 1982, pp. 80 and 140, no. 58 (illustrated).
Munich, Staatsgalerie Moderne Kunst; Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe and Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Lucio Fontana , December 1983- September 1984, pp. 100 and 102, no. 82 (illustrated).
Toyama, Museum of Modern Art; Karuizawa, Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa; Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art; Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum and Amagasaki, Seibu Tsukashin Hall, Lucio Fontana , April-December 1986, pp. 72, 76 and 116, no. 72 (illustrated; titled Spatial conception - In Piazza San Marco by night with Teresita ).
Paris, Musée national d"art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Barcelona, Fundació Caixa de Pensions; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and London, Whitechapel Gallery, Lucio Fontana , April 1987-September 1988 (Paris, pp. 238-239, illustrated; Amsterdam, p. 108, no. 71).
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Vienna, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Lucio Fontana: Retrospektive , June 1996-January 1997, pp. 107 and 220, no. 65 (illustrated).
Verona, Galleria d"Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Lucio Fontana: metafore barocche, October 2002-March 2003, pp. 87 and 125, no. 36 (illustrated).
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York , June 2006-January 2007, pp. 92-93 (illustrated).
M. Tapié, Devenir de Fontana , Turin, 1961, n.p. (illustrated).
E. Crispolti , Lucio Fontana, Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux , Brussels, 1974, vol. I, p. 74, no. 61 O 51 (illustrated).
E. Crispolti , Lucio Fontana, Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux , Brussels, 1974, vol. II, p. 110, no. 61 O 51 (illustrated).
E. Crispolti , Lucio Fontana. Catalogo generale , Milan, 1986, vol. I, pp. 373 and 382, no. 61 O 51 (illustrated).
E. Crispolti , Lucio Fontana. Catalogo generale di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni , Milan, 2006, vol. II, p. 559, no. 61 O 51 (illustrated).
B. Hess, Lucio Fontana 1899-1968: A New Fact in Sculpture , Cologne, 2006, p. 58 (illustrated).
Audible Presence: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Cy Twombly , exh. cat., New York, Dominique Lévy Gallery, 2013, p. 42 (illustrated).
LUCIO FONTANA (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale, In piazza San Marco di notte con Teresita
incised with the artist"s signature ‘l. fontana" (lower right); signed and titled ‘l. fontana Concetto Spaziale, In piazza San Marco di notte con Teresita" (on the reverse)
acrylic and colored glass stones on canvas
59 x 59 in. (150 x 150 cm.)
Executed in 1961.
