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Property from a Private American Collection

Lucio Fontana

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