Lucio Fontana

Concetto Spaziale

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November 19, 09:47 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Japanese Collection

Lucio Fontana

1899 - 1968

Concetto Spaziale

signed L Fontana, titled and inscribed 1+1-OO3 (on the reverse)

waterpaint on canvas

39¾ by 31½ in.

100.3 by 80.6 cm.

Executed in 1961.

Please refer to Sothebys.com for additional exhibition history for this work.

Collection of Teresita Rasini Fontana, Milan
Galleria Internazionale, Milan
Galleria Seno, Milan
Centro Tornabuoni, Florence
Galleria d’Arte Niccoli, Parma
Kodama Gallery, Osaka (acquired from the above)
Acquired by the present owner circa 1989

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Sculptures et Environnements Spatiaux, Vol. II, Brussels, 1974, pp. 70-71, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: Catalogo Generale, Vol. I, Milan, 1986, p. 247, no. 61 B 4, illustrated
Giorgio Ieranò, “Un taglio al passato”, Carnet, no. 4, Milan, April 1999, p. 24, illustrated in color
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo Ragionato di Sculture, Dipinti, Ambientazioni, Milan, 2006, Vol. I, p. 408, no. 61 B 4, illustrated

Turin, Galleria Gissi, Linea Europea, 1968

Venice, Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, SIMA: Terzo Salone Internazionale dei Mercanti d'Arte Moderna, 1985, p. 12, illustrated in color

Venice, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Spazialismo a Venezia, 1987, p. 59, illustrated in color

Osaka, Kodama Gallery, Fontana e lo Spazialismo, 1988, p. 41, illustrated in color