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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 14, 2023 | Christie's | London | Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale | 169 | $****** - ****** | Concetto spaziale, Attesa |
paintings
33 x 24.1 cm (13 x 9.5 in)
waterpaint on canvas
signed, titled and inscribed "l. Fontana Concetto Spaziale ATTESA La giostra girava, girava..." (on the reverse)
Galerie Pierre, Stockholm.
Fred Wennerholm Collection, Stockholm.
Carl G. Bonde Collection, Eslöv.
Private Collection, Sweden.
Private Collection, London.
Anon. sale, Christie"s London, 3 October 2017, lot 62.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Stockholm, Galerie Bleue & Galerie Pierre, Fontana , 1967.
St. Moritz, Robilant + Voena, Lucio Fontana , 2015-2016. This exhibition later travelled to New York, Robilant + Voena.
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana. Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux , vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 67 T 2 (illustrated, p. 188).
E. Crispolti, Fontana, Catalogo generale, vol. II, Milan 1986, no. 67 T 2 (illustrated, p. 653).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana. Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni , vol. II , Milan 2006, no. 67 T 2 (illustrated, p. 850).
Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold , exh. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019, p. 226, pl. 75 (illustrated in colour, p. 170).
LUCIO FONTANA (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale, Attesa
signed, titled and inscribed "l. Fontana Concetto Spaziale ATTESA La giostra girava, girava..." (on the reverse)
waterpaint on canvas
13 x 9 ½in. (33 x 24cm.)
Executed in 1967
