Live Auction 12244The Italian Sale
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Lot 142

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)

Danzatori (Dancers)

Closed6 October 2016

Price Realised

GBP 221,000

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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Danzatori (Dancers)
signed and dated 'L. Fontana 35' (lower right)
coloured plaster
33 3/8 x 50¼in. (85 x 127.5cm.)
Executed in 1935

E. Armani Collection, Rome.
Private Collection, Rome.

Specialist note

‘Fontana’s creative interest was already fairly well-defined at the beginning of the Thirties: that is the desire to intervene in relation with architecture, the intention of acting spatially… Fontana resolves that instinctive and arbitrary ‘primitivism’ into a figuration that is in its own way almost narrative…’
ENRICO CRISPOLTI