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Concetto spaziale by Lucio Fontana

Lucio Fontana

Concetto spaziale, 1962

Oil on canvas
116.2 x 88.6 cm (45.75 x 34.88 in)
Paintings
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, London (28 Jun 2018)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Jun 28, 2018
Christie'sLondonPost-War to Present137
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Concetto spaziale
Apr 28, 2015
Christie'sMilanMilan Modern and Contemporary9
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Concetto spaziale
Nov 21, 1995
Sotheby'sMilanModern & Contemporary Art164
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Concetto spaziale
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

116.2 x 88.6 cm (45.75 x 34.88 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

signed 'l. fontana' (lower right), signed and titled 'l. fontana "Concetto Spaziale"' (on the reverse)

Provenance

Galerie Denise René-Hans Mayer, Krefeld.

Galerie Semiha Huber, Zurich.

Anon. sale, Christie's London, 6 December 1985, lot 66.

Gallery Art Point, Tokyo (acquired at the above sale).

Anon. sale, Sotheby's Milan, 21 November 1995, lot 164.

Galleria Vecchiato, Padua.

Private Collection, Genoa (acquired from the above in the late 1990s).

Anon. sale, Christie's Milan, 28 April 2015, lot 9.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited

London, McRoberts and Tunnard Gallery, Fontana. Paintings 1962, 1962, no. 12.

Tokyo, Tama University Art Museum, Lucio Fontana. Spatial Conception, 1990, no. 39 (illustrated in colour, p. 43).

Tokyo, The Yomiuri Shimbun e Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Lucio Fontana. La penetrazione dello spazio, 1990, no. 22 (illustrated, p. 61). This exhibition later travelled to Kagoshima, Municipal Museum of Art and Nishinomiya, Otani Museum of Art.

Literature

E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, Brussels 1974, vol. II, no. 62 O 14 (illustrated, p. 117).

E. Crispolti, Fontana. Catalogo generale, Milan 1986, vol. I, no. 62 O 14 (illustrated, p. 393).

E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana. Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, Milan 2006, vol. II, no. 62 O 14 (illustrated, p. 578).

Description

signed 'l. fontana' (lower right); signed and titled 'l. fontana "Concetto Spaziale"' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

45 ¾ x 34 7/8in. (116.2 x 88.7cm.)

Executed in 1962