Concetto spaziale, Attese

Details

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale, Attese
signed, titled and inscribed 'ATTESE l. fontana Concetto Spaziale Domani mattina vado a Albisola!' (on the reverse)
waterpaint on canvas
18½ x 15in. (47 x 38cm.)
Painted in 1964

Provenance

Marc Crokaert Collection, Brussels.
Private Collection, Brussels.
Vimercati Collection, Besana Brianza.
Studio Pescali, Milan.
Catani Collection, New York.
Private Collection, Geneva.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 10 February 2005, lot 104.

Literature

E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environments spatiaux, vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 64 T 60 (illustrated, p. 155).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Generale, vol. II, Milan 1986, no. 64 T 60 (illustrated, p. 526).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, vol. II, Milan 2006, no. 64 T 60 (illustrated, p. 716).

Exhibited

Milan, Galleria Medea, L'avventura spaziale di Lucio Fontana, October-November 1974, no. 24 (illustrated).
Milan, Tornabuoni Arte, Lucio Fontana, May 1996 (illustrated in colour, pp. 116-117).

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Lot Essay

'...And the slash, and the holes, the first holes, were not the destruction of painting...it was a dimension beyond the painting, the freedom to conveive art through any means, through any form. Art is not painting and sculpture alone: art is a creation of man, who can transform it into anything...'
(Fontana quoted in E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, vol. I, Milan 2006, p. 81).

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