ID 717596
Lot 264 | LUCIO FONTANA (1899-1968)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 600 000
Concetto spaziale, Attese
signed with artist's fingerprint (lower right); signed, titled and inscribed 'l. fontana "concetto spaziale" ATTESE 1+1-58R' (on the reverse)
waterpaint on canvas
31 3⁄4 x 25 7⁄8in. (80.6 x 65.6cm.)
Executed in 1960
Provenance
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
Mc Roberts & Tunnard, London.
Galerie M.E. Thelen, Essen.
Galerie Anderson-Mayer, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1982.
Literature
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana. Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, Brussels 1974, vol. II, p. 94, no. 60 T 59 (illustrated, p. 95).
E. Crispolti, Fontana. Catalogo generale di sculture, dipinti e ambienti spaziali, Milan 1986, vol. I, no. 60 T 59 (illustrated, p. 323).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana. Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, Milan 2006, vol. I, no. 60 T 59 (illustrated, p. 493).
Exhibited
New York, American Federation of Arts, Explorers of Space, 1961-1962, no. 11. This exhibition later travelled to Akron, Akron Art Institute; Louisville, J.B. Speed Art Museum; Winter Park, Morse Gallery, Rollins College; Stanford, Stanford University and Houston, Contemporary Arts Association of Houston.
Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, 1982-1986 (on long term loan).
Villingen-Schwenningen, Städtische Galerie, Der unbekannte Fontana, 2003-2004, p. 149, no. 85 (illustrated in colour, p. 133; with incorrect measurements). This exhibition later travelled to Heidenheim, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim and Burgdorf, Museum Franz Gertsch.
Stuttgart, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, 1986-2021 (on long term loan).
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| Artist: | Lucio Fontana (1899 - 1968) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Artist: | Lucio Fontana (1899 - 1968) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
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