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Auction Closed

October 17, 01:19 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Lucio Fontana

1899 - 1968


Aquiles (David)

incised with the artist's signature (on the base)

patinated gesso

163 by 48 by 45 cm. 64⅜ by 18⅞ by 17¾ in.

Executed in 1946, this work is the unique original gesso sculpture for the bronze cast.

Private Collection, Buenos Aires

Private Collection, Europe

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, House of Italian Handicraft, Handicraft as a Fine Art in Italy, 1947, n.p., illustrated (bronze example exhibited)

Buenos Aires, Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, Galería Velázquez, Exposición de las obras del IV Concurso Premio Planza, 1950 (bronze example exhibited)

Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Lucio Fontana, April - June 1998, no. 2/S/7, p. 128, illustrated in colour (plaster example exhibited)

Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Borges and Museo Juan B. Castagnino, Lucio Fontana: Profeta del Espacio, March - May 1999, no. 46 ESC 1, p. 99, illustrated (bronze example exhibited)

New York, Colnaghi, Fontana, January - February 2019 (bronze example exhibited)

Julio Rinaldini, "Lucio Fontana o la vision inflamada y dinamica del objeto", Cabalgata, no. 16, Buenos Aires, February 1948, n.p., illustration of the bronze example

Anon., "L’ambiente spaziale di Lucio Fontana", San Remo, July - August 1949, n.p., illustration of the bronze example

Enrico Crispolti, Ed., Lucio Fontana, Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures et Environments Spatiaux, Vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 46 SC 1, p. 20, illustration of the bronze example

Ethel Martínez Sobrado, "Fontana", Pintores Argentinos del Siglo XX, no. 79, Buenos Aires 1981, n.p., illustration of the bronze example

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Generale, Vol. I, Milan 1986, no. 46 SC 1, p. 85, illustration of the bronze example

Enrico Crispolti, Centenario di Lucio Fontana, Milan 1999, p. 35, illustration of the bronze example

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Ragionato di Sculture, Dipinti, Ambientazioni, Vol. I, Milan 2006, no. 46 SC1, p. 203, illustration of the bronze example