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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Lot 160 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION 

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)

Concetto spaziale, Attesa

Closed2 July 2014

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GBP 164,500

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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale, Attesa
signed, inscribed and dated ‘l. Fontana “concetto Spaziale” 1+1-34X’ (on the reverse)
waterpaint on canvas
10 3/8 x 6 7/8in. (26.4 x 17.5 cm.)
Executed in 1960

Betty Barman Collection, Brussels.
Private Collection (a gift from the above).
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s Milan, 21 November 2006, lot 258.

Specialist note

'In future there will no longer be art the way we understand it today. I don't know...colors and forms will be launched into the sky... And this will go for painting as well as for sculpture and architecture ...No, art, the way we think about it today will cease...there'll be something else. I make these cuts and these holes, these Attese and these Concetti...Compared to the Spatial era I am merely a man making signs in the sand. I made these holes. But what are they? They are the mystery of the Unknown in art, they are the Expectation of something that must follow' (L. Fontana, quoted in L.M. Barbero, 'Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York', L.M. Barbero (ed.), Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2006, p. 47).