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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Lot 209 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)

Concetto spaziale, Attese

Closed1 July 2010

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GBP 361,250

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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale, Attese
signed, titled and inscribed 'ATTESE l. fontana Concetto Spaziale Domani mattina vado a Albisola!' (on the reverse)
waterpaint on canvas
18½ x 15in. (47 x 38cm.)
Painted in 1964

Marc Crokaert Collection, Brussels.
Private Collection, Brussels.
Vimercati Collection, Besana Brianza.
Studio Pescali, Milan.
Catani Collection, New York.
Private Collection, Geneva.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 10 February 2005, lot 104.

Specialist note

'...And the slash, and the holes, the first holes, were not the destruction of painting...it was a dimension beyond the painting, the freedom to conveive art through any means, through any form. Art is not painting and sculpture alone: art is a creation of man, who can transform it into anything...'
(Fontana quoted in E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, vol. I, Milan 2006, p. 81).