Lucio Fontana

Marlborough Gallery, Rome

Teresita Rasini Fontana, Milan

Kasper Koenig, Cologne

Private Collection

Krefeld, Galerie Merian Edition, Lucio Fontana, 1899-1968, September – October 1973 (artist’s proof)

Verbania-Pallanza, Museo del Paesaggio, Biennale Internazionale di scultura contemporanea, Aptico: Il Senso della Scultura, July – September 1976 (artist's proof)

Turin, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Arte in Italia: 1960 – 1977, May – September 1977, p. 76 (text) (artist's proof)

Milan, Palazzo Reale, La Donazione Lucio Fontana: proposta per una sistemazione museografica, November 1978 – January 1979, p. 106, no. 72, illustrated (terracotta version)

Rimini, Sala Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Lucio Fontana, Mostra antologica, June – September 1982, n.p., no. 77, illustrated (artist’s proof)

Tokyo, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Seibu-Ikebukuro, Fontana, March 1984, n.p., no. 16, illustrated (edition no. 2/2)

Varese, Musei Civici di Varese, Lucio Fontana, Mostra antologica, May – August 1985, p. 139, no. 91, illustrated (artist's proof)

Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli, Lucio Fontana, La cultura dell’occhio, June – September 1986, p. 74, no. 60, illustrated (terracotta version)

Tokyo, The Yomiuri Shimbun Mitsukoshi Museum; Kagoshima, Museo Municipale d’Arte; Nishinomiya, Otani Museum of Art, Lucio Fontana, La penetrazione dello spazio, April – November 1992, p. 105, no. 70, illustrated in colour (edition no.  2/2)

Prato, Museo Pecci, Burri e Fontana 1949-1968, April – June 1996, p. 164, no. 22, illustrated in colour (terracotta version)

Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle; and Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Lucio Fontana, Retrospektive, June 1996 – January 1997, pp. 202 and 223, no. 162, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)  

Milan, PAC, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea; Triennale di Milano; Museo Diocesano; Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera; Museo Teatrale alla Scala; Centenario di Lucio Fontana, Cinque mostre a Milano: Lucio Fontana, Idee e capolavori, April – June 1999, p. 123, no. I, 111, illustrated in colour (terracotta version)

London, Massimo de Carlo, Günther Förg/ Lucio Fontana: Bronze/Terracotta, October  – November 2014

Cesare Vivaldi, ‘Arte: Fontana e… Raspi’, in: L’Italia Domani, No. 48, A. II, Rome, 28 November 1959, p. 16, illustrated (edition no. unknown)

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures et Environments Spatiaux, Vol. II, Brussels 1974, p. 103, no. 59 N 3, illustrated (terracotta version)

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Generale, Vol. I, Milan 1986, p. 345, no. 59 N 3, illustrated (terracotta version)

Carlo Pirovano, Scultura italiana del Novecento: Opere, tendenze protagonisti, Milan 1993, p. 264, no. 363, illustrated (terracotta version)

Exh. Cat., Milan, Academia di Belle Arti di Brera, La città di Brera, Due secoli di scultura, June - July 1995, p. 278, illustrated (terracotta version)

Exh. Cat., Verona, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo Forti, Lucio Fontana, metafore barocche, October 2002 – March 2003, p. 19, illustrated (terracotta version)

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Ragionato di Sculture, Dipinti, Ambientazioni, Vol. I, Milan 2006, p. 518, no. 59 N 3, illustrated (terracotta version)

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is greener in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. The patina and surface irregularities are in keeping with the artist's choice of medium. Close inspection reveals some light glue residue on the back of the sculpture.
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