Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

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Property from an Esteemed European Collection

Lucio Fontana

Concetto spaziale, Attese

Auction Closed

June 25, 06:56 PM GMT

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Lucio Fontana

1899 - 1968


Concetto spaziale, attese

signed, titled and inscribed Oggi vado a pranzo col premio Nobel e amico Quasimodo (on the reverse)

waterpaint on canvas

100.5 by 81 cm. 39⅝ by 31⅞ in.

Executed in 1966.

Galerie Müller, Cologne

Hans and Ursula Hahn, Gerolstein (acquired from the above circa 1966)

Simon Dickinson, London (acquired from the above in 2011)

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2011)

Christie’s, London, 11 October 2012, lot 83 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 66 T 67, pp. 184-85, illustrated

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: Catalogo generale, vol. II, Milan 1986, no. 66 T 67, p. 642, illustrated

Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, vol. II, Milan 2006, no. 66 T 67, p. 837, illustrated

Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus rheinisch-westfälischem Privatbesitz: Malerei, Plastik, Handzeichnungen, April - June 1967, no. 97, fig. 111, n.p., illustrated

Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts Freie Berufe Sammeln: Malerei, Plastik, Objekte, Graphik, June - August 1971, no. 65 (checklist)

Gerolstein, Sammlung Hans und Ursula Hahn, February 1971

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Lucio Fontana Ambienti Spaziali, May - June 2012, no. 373, p. 345, illustrated in colour