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Property from the Gian Enzo Sperone Collection

Lucio Fontana

Concetto spaziale

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Estimate

180,000 - 250,000 EUR

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Description

Property from the Gian Enzo Sperone Collection 

Lucio Fontana

1899 – 1968

Concetto spaziale

 

signed and inscribed (on the reverse)

oil and coloured pencil on canvas paper

51,5 x 65 cm; 19 ½ x 25 ⅝ in.

According to the catalogue raisonné, this work was executed in 1959 and not the date inscribed on the reverse.


This work is registered in the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan, under the no. 59 CA 5.

T.F.R. collection, Milan

Christie's, London, 29 June 1989, lot 526

Private Collection, Hamburg

Galerie Senatore, Stuttgart

Sotheby's, London, 24 June 2004, lot 230

Connaught Brown, London (acquired in the above sale)

Private Collection, Switzerland

Milan, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Azimuth e Azimuth, 1959, Castellani, Manzoni e…, June - July 1984, p. 36, illustrated

Milan, Amedeo Porro arte moderna e contemporanea, Carriera "barocca" di Fontana, November 2004 - January 2005, pp. 404-405, illustrated

London, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Lucio Fontana painting, sculptures and drawings, February - March 2005, p. 57, illustrated in colour

Genoa, Palazzo Ducale, Fontana. Luce e colore, October 2008 - February 2009, p. 88, illustrated

Enrico Crispolti, J. van der Marck, Lucio Fontana Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Sculptures et Environnements Spatiaux, vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 59 CA 5, p. 78, illustrated

Enrico Crispolti, Fontana Catalogo Generale, vol. I, Milan 1986, no. 59 CA 5, p. 273, illustrated

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, Ambientazioni, vol. I, Milan 2006, no. 59 CA 5, p. 439, illustrated