Concetto spaziale

Details

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale
signed 'l. fontana' (lower right); signed and titled 'Lucio Fontana Concetto Spaziale' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
28 ¾ x 23 5/8in. (73 x 60cm.)
Executed in 1962

Provenance

Galleria la Salita, Rome.
Anon. sale, Finarte London, 4 December 1984, lot 493.
Private Collection, Rome.
Gian Tomaso Liverani Collection, Rome.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 16 October 2006, lot 194.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, Brussels 1974, Vol. II, no. 62 O 8 (illustrated, p. 116).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana. Catalogo generale, Milan 1986, vol. I, no. 62 O 8 (illustrated, p. 392).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana. Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, Milan 2006, vol. II, no. 62 O 8 (illustrated, p. 577).

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'Einstein’s discovery of the cosmos is the infinite dimension, without end. And here we have the foreground, middleground and background, what do I have to do to go further? I make a hole, infinity passes through it, light passes through it… everyone thought I wanted to destroy; but it is not true, I have constructed.' LUCIO FONTANA

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