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Lucio Fontana
Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 GBP
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Description
- Lucio Fontana
- Concetto Spaziale, Attese
- signed, titled and inscribed Silvana è una bella modella on the reverse
- waterpaint on canvas
- 55 by 46cm.
- 21 5/8 by 18 1/8 in.
- Executed in 1966.
Provenance
Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1966
Exhibited
Paris, Artcurial, Hommage au Président Georges Pompidou. Un homme de Culture, 1987, p. 27, illustrated in colour
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Passions Privées, Collections Particulières d'Art Moderne et Contemporain en France, 1995, p. 436, no. 4, illustrated
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Passions Privées, Collections Particulières d'Art Moderne et Contemporain en France, 1995, p. 436, no. 4, illustrated
Literature
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo Ragionato, Vol. II, Milan 2006, p. 848, no. 66 T 134, illustrated in colour
Catalogue Note
"Fontana characterises our era because he values the idea more than its execution, research more than accomplishment, speculation about the nature of things more than the rendering of actual appearances. He considers his works not as objects to be treasured but rather as provisional results of a continuing search." (Jan van der Marck in his introduction to Exhibition Catalogue, Minneapolis, Walker Arts Centre, Lucio Fontana: The Spatial Concept of Art, 1966)