Contemporary Evening Auction
Contemporary Evening Auction
Property from a Private American Collection
Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio
Auction Closed
November 16, 02:02 AM GMT
Estimate
18,000,000 - 22,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private American Collection
Lucio Fontana
1899 - 1968
Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio
signed (center left); signed (on the reverse); titled (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
70 ⅛ by 48 ½ in. 178 by 123 cm.
Executed in 1963.
Galerie Burén, Stockholm (acquired by 1966)
Private Collection, Stockholm (acquired by 1974)
Giampaolo Catani, New York (acquired by 1980)
Alberto Galimberti, Milan
Brerarte Milan, 28 October 1980, lot 61
Private Collection, Milan
Brerarte Milan, 9 May 1983, lot 62
Private Collection, Geneva (acquired by 1986)
Galería Theo, Madrid (by November 1987)
Gallery Ressle, Stockholm
Convector Art Collection, Stockholm
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1989)
Christie's London, 6 December 2000, lot 19 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Ángel Crespo, 'El pensamiento y la obra de Lucio Fontana', Forma Nueva del Inmueble, Madrid, March 1967, pp. 48-55, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, ed., Lucio Fontana: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Sculptures et Environnements Spatiaux, vol. II, Brussels, 1974, no. 63 FD 16, pp. 136-137, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, ed., Fontana, Catalogo generale, vol. II, Milan, 1986, no. 63 FD 16, p. 467, illustrated
Francisco Jose Sánchez-Ortiz, "Lucio Fontana," Gal Art, Barcelona, 2 March 1988, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, ed., Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Ragionato di Sculture, Dipinti, Ambientazioni, vol. II, Milan, 2006, no. 63 FD 16, p. 656, 221, illustrated in colour
Silvia Bignami and Jacopo Galimberti, Lucio Fontana and Parisian Artventure, Milan, 2014, pp. 44-45, illustrated (installed in Venice, Iris Clert Gallery, 1964)
Enrico Crispolti ed., Lucio Fontana: Fine di Dio, Florence, 2017, p. 289, illustrated (installed in Venice, Iris Clert Gallery, 1964)
Venice, Iris Clert Gallery, Biennale Flottante, June 1964
Paris, Galerie Iris Clert, Peinture de Fontana: Les Oeufs Célestes, Febuary 1964
Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Fontana, April - July 1980, no. 50, n.p., illustrated and p. 31
Milan, Galleria il Mappamondo, Lucio Fontana, Spring 1980
Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez, Lucio Fontana: El Espacio Como Exploración, April - July 1982, no. 62, p. 81, illustrated
Milan, Centro Annunciata, Lucio Fontana ispiratore dello Spazialismo, February - March 1983, no. 24, n.p., illustrated in color
Madrid, Galería Theo, Concierto espacial [sic], December 1984 - January 1985, illustrated (on the exhibition leaflet), illustrated in color (on announcement card)
Madrid, Galería Theo, Fontana Obras 1960-1968, October - November 1987, no. 22, illustrated in color (on the cover)
Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou; Barcelona, Fundación La Caixa; and Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; London, Whitechapel Gallery, Lucio Fontana, October 1987- September 1988, no. 69, p. 206, illustrated in color (dated 1964) (Paris) (only traveled to Barcelona)
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Lucio Fontana: Ambienti Spaziali, May - June 2012, no. 336, p. 308, illustrated in color and p. 397