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Property from a Prestigious European Collection

Lucio Fontana

Concetto spaziale, Attesa

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2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from a Prestigious European Collection

Lucio Fontana

(1899 - 1968)


Concetto spaziale, Attesa

signed, titled and inscribed 771 (on the reverse)

oil and waterpaint on canvas

39 ⅜ by 32 ⅛ in.

100 by 81.5 cm.

Executed in 1959.

Galleria Blu, Milan

Camuffo Collection, Venice (acquired from the above in the 1970s)

Brerarte Milan, 17 November 1982, lot 144

Galleria La Salita, Rome

Private Collection, Bologna (acquired from the above in 2000)

Christie's Milan, 18 October 2013, lot 66 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Milan, Galleria Blu, Fontana, 1964, no. 48, n.p., illustrated (inverse orientation)

Genoa, Galleria La Bertesca, Fontana, Dorazio, Capogrossi, Turcato, 1970

Paris, Musée de la Ville de Paris, Lucio Fontana: Rétrospective, 2014, no. 131, p. 198, illustrated in color and p. 298 (text)

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, Vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 1974, no. 59 T 67, p. 84, illustrated (inverse orientation)

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo generale, Vol. I, Milan 1986, no. 59 T 67, p. 292, illustrated (inverse orientation)

Vanni Scheiwiller, ed., Stasera inauguro la mia mostra da Palazzoli, Milan 1999, p. 36 (installed in Milan, Galleria Blu, 1964) (inverse orientation)

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, Vol. I, Milan 2006, no. 59 T 67, p. 457, illustrated