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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Lot 52

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)

Concetto spaziale, Attese

Closed13 February 2013

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GBP 601,250

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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale, Attese
signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'l. Fontana "Concetto Spaziale" ATTESE Una montagna di merda da scalare' (on the reverse)
waterpaint on canvas
21¾ x 18 1/8in. (55.2 x 46cm.)
Executed in 1968

Camuffo Collection, Venice.
Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris.
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya.
Takehiko Tanabe Collection, Nagoya.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

'The man of today... is too lost in a dimension that is immense for him, is too oppressed by the triumphs of science, is too dismayed by the inventions that follow one after the other, to recognise himself in figurative painting. What is wanted is an absolutely new language' (L. Fontana, quoted in A. White, Lucio Fontana: Between Utopia and Kitsch, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London 2011, p. 260).