Concetto spaziale

Details

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

Provenance

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

Literature

L. M. Barbero, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo ragionato delle opere su carta, Tomo III, Milan 2013, no. 64-65 DSP 171 (illustrated, p. 908).

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

‘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).

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