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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Lot 151

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)

Concetto spaziale

Closed12 February 2016

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GBP 52,500

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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale
signed 'l. Fontana' (lower right)
ink on paper
19 ¾ x 23 ½in. (50.2 x 59.8cm.)
Executed in 1964-1965

Private Collection, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘Einstein’s discovery of the cosmos is the infinite dimension without end. And so here we have: foreground, middleground and background … to go further what do I have to do? I make holes, infinity passes through them, light passes through them, there is no need to paint. Everyone thought I wanted to destroy: but it is not true. I have constructed’
(L. Fontana, quoted in C. Lonzi, Autoritratto, Bari 1969, pp. 169-171).