LUCIO FONTANA (1899-1968)
Signorina seduta (Seated Young Woman)
Details
LUCIO FONTANA (1899-1968)
Signorina seduta (Seated Young Woman)
signed 'l. Fontana' (on the base)
polychromed plaster
33 1/8 x 40 1/2 x 32 5/8in. (84 x 103 x 83cm.)
Executed in 1934
Signorina seduta (Seated Young Woman)
signed 'l. Fontana' (on the base)
polychromed plaster
33 1/8 x 40 1/2 x 32 5/8in. (84 x 103 x 83cm.)
Executed in 1934
Provenance
Private Collection, Rome (acquired directly from the artist).
Literature
E. Persico, Lucio Fontana, Milan 1936, vol. 1 (illustrated, unpaged).
“El temperamento en el arte argentino: Lucio Fontana” in La Nacion, 6 June 1943, p. 2 (illustrated).
J. Zocchi, Lucio Fontana, Buenos Aires 1946, pp. 28 and 82, no. 19 (illustrated, unpaged).
G. Ballo, L. Fontana, Idea per un ritratto, Turin 1970, p. 255, no. 41 (illustrated, pp. 42-43).
E. Crispolti, Omaggio a Lucio Fontana, Rome 1971, no. 33 (illustrated, p. 38).
E. Crispolti , Lucio Fontana, paintings, sculptures and drawings, exh. cat., London, Ben Brown Fine Arts, 2005, p. 13 (illustrated).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Ragionato di Sculture, Dipinti, Ambientazioni, vol. I, Milan 2006, no. 34 SC 1 (illustrated in colour, p. 151).
B. Hess, Lucio Fontana, 1899-1968, "A New Fact in Sculpture", Cologne 2006, p. 11 (illustrated in colour, p. 10).
G. Celant, Lucio Fontana, Ambienti Spaziali, exh. cat., New York, Gagosian, 2012, p. 387, no. 23 (illustrated in colour, p. 54).
E. Crispolti, L. M. Barbero, S. Ardemagni and M. Villa (eds.), Lucio Fontana. Catalogo regionato delle sculture ceramiche, vol. 1, Milan 2022, pp. 26, 29, no. 34 SC 1 (detail illustrated in colour, p. 26).
“El temperamento en el arte argentino: Lucio Fontana” in La Nacion, 6 June 1943, p. 2 (illustrated).
J. Zocchi, Lucio Fontana, Buenos Aires 1946, pp. 28 and 82, no. 19 (illustrated, unpaged).
G. Ballo, L. Fontana, Idea per un ritratto, Turin 1970, p. 255, no. 41 (illustrated, pp. 42-43).
E. Crispolti, Omaggio a Lucio Fontana, Rome 1971, no. 33 (illustrated, p. 38).
E. Crispolti , Lucio Fontana, paintings, sculptures and drawings, exh. cat., London, Ben Brown Fine Arts, 2005, p. 13 (illustrated).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Ragionato di Sculture, Dipinti, Ambientazioni, vol. I, Milan 2006, no. 34 SC 1 (illustrated in colour, p. 151).
B. Hess, Lucio Fontana, 1899-1968, "A New Fact in Sculpture", Cologne 2006, p. 11 (illustrated in colour, p. 10).
G. Celant, Lucio Fontana, Ambienti Spaziali, exh. cat., New York, Gagosian, 2012, p. 387, no. 23 (illustrated in colour, p. 54).
E. Crispolti, L. M. Barbero, S. Ardemagni and M. Villa (eds.), Lucio Fontana. Catalogo regionato delle sculture ceramiche, vol. 1, Milan 2022, pp. 26, 29, no. 34 SC 1 (detail illustrated in colour, p. 26).
Exhibition
Milan, Palazzo della Permanente, V Mostra del Sindacato Interprovinciale Fascista delle Belle Arti di Lombardia, 1934, no. 318.
Geneva, Athénée, Exposition d’art italien, 1934.
Genoa, Galleria Genova, 20 firme in una mostra collettiva, 1937.
Geneva, Athénée, Exposition d’art italien, 1934.
Genoa, Galleria Genova, 20 firme in una mostra collettiva, 1937.
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