Lot 45
  • 45

Lucio Fontana

Estimate
130,000 - 180,000 GBP
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Description

  • Lucio Fontana
  • Concetto Spaziale
  • signed and dated 57
  • ink, gouache, holes, graffiti and aniline on paper laid down on canvas
  • 69 by 69cm.
  • 27 1/8 by 27 1/8 in.

Provenance

Teresita Rasini Fontana, Milan

Literature

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana. Catalogo Ragionato, Milan 2006, Vol. I, p. 442, n. 59 CA 15, illustrated

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is slightly darker. Condition: This works in very good condition. There is a thin white horizontal line to the bottom left edge, which is original to the artist's stretching the canvas.
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Catalogue Note

"A butterfly in space excites my imagination: having freed myself from rhetoric, I lose myself in time and begin my holes." (the artist cited in: Leonardo Sinisgalli, Pittori che scrivono. Antologia di scritti e disegni, Milan 1954, p. 115).