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Concetto Spaziale-Teatrino
This work belongs to the « Teatrini » series, one of Fontana’s last. This series of 180 works, executed between 1964 and 1966, is characterised by lacquered wood frames of a uniform colour. They represent a proposed spatial figuration where irregular shapes are cut out from the edges of the frame, casting their shadow on a plain canvas that is often punctuated with holes. Signed and titled on the back « L Fontana, Concetto Spaziale »
Provenance
Alfred Otto Müller, Cologne (acquired directly from the artist in the 1960s);
Sotheby’s London, Contemporary Art Part I, 9 December 1999, lot 17;
Private Collection;
European Private Collection.
Publication(s)
Christ und die Welt, no. 44, 31 October 1969, p. 12 with ill.
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogue Raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, vol. II, La Connaissance, Brussels 1974, p. 176, no. 66TE29 with ill.
E. Lucie-Smith, Art Today, Phaidon Press, Oxford 1977, p. 190 with ill.
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Ragionato di Sculture, Dipinti, Ambientazioni, vol. II, Skira, Milan 2006, p. 812, no. 66 TE 29 with ill.
Exhibition(s)
Wuppertal, Kunst-und Museumverein, Hommage à Fontana, 1969, exh. cat. no. 41, with ill. (label on the reverse)