Details
LUCIO FONTANA (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale, Attesa
signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'l.fontana "Concetto Spaziale" ATTESA 1960 1 + 1-3310' (on the reverse)
waterpaint on canvas
34½ x 32in. (100.2 x 81cm.)
Executed in 1960
Provenance
McRoberts and Tunnard Gallery, London.
Galleria Blu, Milan.
Private Collection, Cologne.
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s Milan, 28 May 1996, lot 186.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, vol. I, Milan 2006, no. 60 T 163 (illustrated, p. 508).
Exhibited
Klosterneuburg, Sammlung Essl - Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl - the first view, 1999, p. 384 (illustrated in colour, p. 308).
Klosterneuburg, Sammlung Essl, Permanent 02, 2002-2003.
Klosterneuburg, Sammlung Essl - Kunst der Gegenwart, Passion for Art: 35th Anniversary of the Essl Collection, vol. II, 2007 (illustrated in colour, p. 240).
Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Monet, Kandinsky, Rothko und die Folgen: Wege der Abstrakten Malerei, 2008, pp. 125, 134 and 189, no. 10 (illustrated in colour, pp. 124 and 135).
Krems, Forum Frohner, Dem Bild die Gedärme rausreissen, 2008.
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