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LUCIO FONTANA (1899-1968)

Lot 67
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Lot 67 | LUCIO FONTANA (1899-1968)
Estimate value
$ 6 500 000 – 8 500 000
LUCIO FONTANA (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale, In piazza San Marco di notte con Teresita
incised with the artist's signature ‘l. fontana’ (lower right); signed and titled ‘l. fontana Concetto Spaziale, In piazza San Marco di notte con Teresita’ (on the reverse)
acrylic and colored glass stones on canvas
59 x 59 in. (150 x 150 cm.)
Executed in 1961.




Provenance

Toninelli Arte Moderna, Milan
Private collection, Milan
Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 6 October 2017, lot 106
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Literature

M. Tapié, Devenir de Fontana, Turin, 1961, n.p. (illustrated).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, Brussels, 1974, vol. I, p. 74, no. 61 O 51 (illustrated).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, Brussels, 1974, vol. II, p. 110, no. 61 O 51 (illustrated).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana. Catalogo generale, Milan, 1986, vol. I, pp. 373 and 382, no. 61 O 51 (illustrated).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana. Catalogo generale di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, Milan, 2006, vol. II, p. 559, no. 61 O 51 (illustrated).
B. Hess, Lucio Fontana 1899-1968: A New Fact in Sculpture, Cologne, 2006, p. 58 (illustrated).
Audible Presence: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Cy Twombly, exh. cat., New York, Dominique Lévy Gallery, 2013, p. 42 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Venice, Centro Internazionale delle Arti e del Costume, Palazzo Grassi, Arte e Contemplazione, October 1961, n.p. (titled Piazza San Marco di notte con Teresita).
Milan, Palazzo Reale Comune di Milano, Lucio Fontana, April-June 1972, n.p., no. 160 (illustrated; titled Concetto spaziale).
Kunsthaus Zurich, Lucio Fontana: Concetti spaziali, April-May 1976, p. 36, no. 72.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lucio Fontana 1899-1968: A Retrospective, October-December 1977, p. 75, no. 69 (illustrated).
Madrid, Palacio de Velàzquez, Lucio Fontana: El espacio como exploración, April-June 1982, pp. 80 and 140, no. 58 (illustrated).
Munich, Staatsgalerie Moderne Kunst; Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe and Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Lucio Fontana, December 1983- September 1984, pp. 100 and 102, no. 82 (illustrated).
Toyama, Museum of Modern Art; Karuizawa, Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa; Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art; Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum and Amagasaki, Seibu Tsukashin Hall, Lucio Fontana, April-December 1986, pp. 72, 76 and 116, no. 72 (illustrated; titled Spatial conception—In Piazza San Marco by night with Teresita).
Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Barcelona, Fundació Caixa de Pensions; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and London, Whitechapel Gallery, Lucio Fontana, April 1987-September 1988 (Paris, pp. 238-239, illustrated; Amsterdam, p. 108, no. 71).
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Vienna, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Lucio Fontana: Retrospektive, June 1996-January 1997, pp. 107 and 220, no. 65 (illustrated).
Verona, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Lucio Fontana: metafore barocche, October 2002-March 2003, pp. 87 and 125, no. 36 (illustrated).
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York, June 2006-January 2007, pp. 92-93 (illustrated).
Artist:Lucio Fontana (1899 - 1968)
Art style:Post War Art
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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