Live Auction 7992The Italian Sale
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Lot 69 PROPERTY OF A LADY 

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)

Concetto spaziale, Attese

Closed14 October 2011

Price Realised

GBP 601,250

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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale, Attese
signed, titled and inscribed 'l. Fontana Concetto Spaziale domani vado a Lugano' (on the reverse)
waterpaint on canvas
25¾ x 21 3/8in. (65.5 x 54.2cm.)
Executed in 1964

Maffei Collection, Milan.
Piero Fedeli, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner in 1968 and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Now in space there is no longer any measurement. Now you see infinity in the Milky Way.... the sense of measurement and of time no longer exists.... And my art too is all based on this purity of the philosophy of nothing, which is not a destructive nothing but a creative nothing... And the slash, and the holes, the first holes, were not the destruction of the painting... it was a dimension beyond the painting, the freedom to conceive art through any means, through any form.' (Fontana quoted in Lucio Fontana, exh. cat., Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1998, p. 246).