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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)

Concetto spaziale, Attesa

Details
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale, Attesa
signed, inscribed and dated ‘l. Fontana “concetto Spaziale” 1+1-34X’ (on the reverse)
waterpaint on canvas
10 3/8 x 6 7/8in. (26.4 x 17.5 cm.)
Executed in 1960
Provenance
Betty Barman Collection, Brussels.
Private Collection (a gift from the above).
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s Milan, 21 November 2006, lot 258.
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Further Details
This work is registered in the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan under no. 1900/154 and it is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

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Lot Essay

'In future there will no longer be art the way we understand it today. I don't know...colors and forms will be launched into the sky... And this will go for painting as well as for sculpture and architecture ...No, art, the way we think about it today will cease...there'll be something else. I make these cuts and these holes, these Attese and these Concetti...Compared to the Spatial era I am merely a man making signs in the sand. I made these holes. But what are they? They are the mystery of the Unknown in art, they are the Expectation of something that must follow' (L. Fontana, quoted in L.M. Barbero, 'Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York', L.M. Barbero (ed.), Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2006, p. 47).

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