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700,000 - 1,000,000 EUR

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Description

Lucio Fontana

1899 - 1968

Concetto Spaziale


signed and dated 57 (lower right); signed, titled (twice) and dated 1957 (on the reverse)

pastel on canvas

114,5 x 164,5 cm; 45 x 64 ¾ in.

Executed in 1957.


This work is registered in the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan, under the no. 57 G 36.

Galerie Carrefour, Brussels

Private Collection, Paris

Michael Werner Gallery, Cologne

Marisa Del Re, New York

Rudolf Zwirner Gallery, Cologne

José Mugrabi Collection, New York

Sotheby’s, London, 30 November 1989, lot 637

Giuseppe Niccoli Collection, Parma

Tornabuoni Arte, Florence

Aldo Corona Collection, Trento

Private Collection, Europe

Christie's, London, 6 February 2002, lot 15

Acquired in the above sale by the present owner

New York, Marisa del Re Gallery, Lucio Fontana - Conquest of Space, November – December 1986, illustrated on the cover

Munich, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Italian Myth: Winter Tale Germany, March – May 1988, no. 139, p. 231, illustrated in colour

Zurich, Galerie Lawrence Rubin, Fausto Melotti und Lucio Fontana, February – March 1996

Vicenza, Comune di Vicenza, Spatialism Abstract Art Venice 1950/60, October 1996 – January 1997, no. 3, pp. 139, 233, illustrated

Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Lucio Fontana, April – June 1998, no. 3 P 27, p. 208, illustrated in colour

Zurich, de Pury & Luxembourg, Lucio Fontana, October – December 2002, no. 39, illustrated in colour

Villingen – Schwenningen, Städtische Galerie; Heidenheim, Kunstmuseum; Burgdorf, Museum Franz Gertsch; The Unknown Fontana, November 2003 – June 2004, no. 81, p. 129, illustrated in colour

London, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Lucio Fontana. Paintings, sculptures and drawings, February – May 2005, p. 52, illustrated in colour

St. Moritz, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, The Art of Codognato, December 2014 – April 2015, no. 22

Juan Eduardo Cirlot, Lucio Fontana, Barcelona 1966, p. 30, illustrated

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogue Raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 57 G 36, pp. 58 - 59, illustrated

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo generale, vol I, Milan 1986, no. 57 G 36, p. 199, illustrated

ArtForum International, vol. XXV, no. 3, November 1986, illustrated

G. Curto, Specchio della Stampa, ‘La sua arte e uno sfregio’; no. 168, 10 April 1999, p. 97, illustrated

Schweizer Illustrierte, 5 April 2004, p. 80, illustrated

Le Temps, 20 April 2004, Geneva, p. 38, illustrated

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, vol. I, Milan 2006, no. 57 G3 6, p. 355, illustrated