Live Auction 16816Un/Breakable
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Lot 1 UPROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ITALIAN COLLECTION

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)

Crocifisso

Closed2 October 2018

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GBP 150,000

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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Crocifisso
signed with the artist's initials 'L.F.' (along the reverse)
glazed terracotta
12 ¼ x 6 1/8 x 4in. (31 x 15.5 x 10cm.)
Executed in 1955-57

A gift from the artist to the family of the present owner in the 1960s.

Specialist note

‘People called my ceramics primeval. The materials looked as if it had been hit by an earthquake, yet it was motionless’

- Lucio Fontana (L. Fontana, ‘La mia ceramica’, Tempo, September, 21, 1939)