Concetto spaziale, Attese

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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale, Attese
signed, titled and inscribed ‘l.Fontana Concetto Spaziale ATTESE sono stato a colazione con Maria Papa’ (on the reverse)
waterpaint on canvas
21.3/4 x 18in. (55.2 x 46cm.)
Executed in 1964-1965

Provenance

Galerie Europe, Paris.
Private collection, Paris (acquired from the above in 1974).
Private collection, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Generale, vol. II, Milan 1986, no. 64-65 T 4 (illustrated, p. 546).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo ragionato di sculpture, dipinti, ambientazioni, vol. II, Milan 2006, no. 64-65 T 4 (illustrated, p. 733).

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Lot Essay

‘When, in the final blaze of the universe, time and space no longer exist, there will be no memory of the monuments erected by man, although not a single hair on his head will have been lost. ‘But we do not intend to abolish the art of the past or to stop life: we want painting to escape from its frame and sculpture from its bell-jar. An expression of aerial art of a minute is as if it lasts a thousand years, an eternity’ (‘Second Spatial Manifesto’, signed by G. Dova, L. Fontana, B. Joppolo, G. Kaisserlian, M. Milani, A Tullier, Milan, March 1948, reproduced in E. Crispolti & R. Siligato (ed.), Lucio Fontana, exh. cat., Rome, Palazzo delle esposizioni, 1998, p. 118).

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