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Lucio Fontana
Estimate
450,000 - 650,000 GBP
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Description
- Lucio Fontana
- Concetto Spaziale, Attese
- signed, titled and inscribed Il primo giugno non è / il primo maggio on the reverse
- waterpaint on canvas
- 73 by 92cm.
- 28 3/4 by 36 1/4 in.
- Executed in 1964.
Provenance
Jan-Eric Lowenadler, Stockholm & New York
Hedenius Konsthandel, Stockholm
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner circa 1982
Hedenius Konsthandel, Stockholm
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner circa 1982
Literature
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo Generale, Vol. II, Milan 1986, p. 543, no. 64 T 144, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo Ragionato, Vol. II, Milan 2006, p. 728, no. 64 T 144, illustrated
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo Ragionato, Vol. II, Milan 2006, p. 728, no. 64 T 144, illustrated
Catalogue Note
"My art is all based on the purity of the philosophy of nothing, which is not a destructive nothing but a creative nothing... And the slash [was] not the destructio🌄n of the painting... it was a dimension beyond the painting, the freedom to conceive art through any means, through any form."
(the artist cited in Exhibition Catalogue, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposzioni, Lucio Fontana, 1998, p. 246)