Lucio Fontana

Concetto spaziale

Artist's Resale Right

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June 25, 11:00 AM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Bid

75,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Lucio Fontana

1899 - 1968

Concetto spaziale

each: incised with the artist's signature (on the reverse); numbered 310/500 (on the underside)

polished bronze, in two parts

each: 25 by 20 by 21 cm. 9⅞ by 7⅞ by 8¼ in.

Executed in 1967, this work is number 310 from an edition of 500, plus 5 artist's proofs.

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)

Private Collection, Belgium (acquired by descent from the above)

Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1999, lot 163 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Lucio Fontana, February - March 1970, p. 233, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Tokyo, Tama Art University Museum, Lucio Fontana: Spatial Conception, June - September 1990, no. 67, p. 71, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

Milan, Amedeo Porro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea and London, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Lucio Fontana: Sedici Sculture/Sixteen sculptures, 1937-1967, December 2007 - May 2008, no. 15, p. 107, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

London, Imago Art Gallery, Lucio Fontana: Beyond Space, October - December 2008, p. 93, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

Harry Ruhe and Camillo Rigo, eds., Lucio Fontana: Graphics, Multiples and More..., Amsterdam 2006, no. B-1,B-2, p. 139, illustration in colour of another example