LUCIO FONTANA -- A 1950s ORIGINAL SIGNED MIXED-MEDIA GOUACHE PAINTING PROVENANCE

Description: A Spacelab70 Special Offering With Provenance LUCIO FONTANA (1899-1968) AN ORIGINAL GOUACHE PAINTING ON PAPER(With "Buchi" or "Holes" as Perforations) ("Concetto Spaziale") Circa: 1950s SIGNED:L. FONTANA(LUCIO FONTANA) (There were no COAs or gallery documents with this item when we acquired it from a private collection, hence it is being sold as is.) Born in Argentina in 1899, LUCIO FONTANA was an Argentine-Italian artist: a painter, sculptor and theorist. He is best known as the founder of SPATIALISM and an exponent of Abstract painting as the first known artist to slash his canvases, which symbolizes an utter rejection of all prerequisites of art. From 1949, in Milano, onwards he started the so-called Spatial Concept or slash series, consisting in holes or slashes on the surface of monochrome paintings, drawing a sign of what he named "an art for the Space Age." He devised the generic title Concetto Spaziale (spatial concept) for these works and used it for almost all his later paintings. These can be divided into broad categories: the Buchi (Holes), beginning in 1949, and the Tagli (Slashes), which he instituted in the mid-1950s. In the last years of his career, Fontana became increasingly interested in the staging of his work in the many exhibitions that honored him worldwide, as well as in the idea of purity achieved in his last white canvases. These concerns were prominent at the 1966 Venice Biennale, for which he designed the environment for his work. Shortly before his death he was present at the "Destruction Art, Destroy to Create" demonstration at the Finch College Museum of New York. Then he left his home in Milano and went to Comabbio (in the province of Varese, Italy), his family's mother town, where he died in 1968. Today, the major large works by Lucio Fontana can fetch prices in the multiple tens of millions at major auction houses such as Christie's and Sotheby's.

Price: 11250 USD

Location: West Hollywood, California

End Time: 2024-11-07T04:55:04.000Z

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