Lucio Fontana *
(Rosario di Santa Fe, Argentina 1899–1968 Comabbio)
Crocefisso, 1961, signed and dated on the reverse L. Fontana 61, painted and glazed ceramic, 39.5 x 21 cm
The present work is registered at the Archivio Lucio Fontana, Milan, under no. 2317/8.
Provenance:
Collection Giovanni Rossello, Albisola
Acquired there in 2000 by the present owner
Private Collection, Italy
In the 1930s, Fontana started exploring the potentials of high-fired ceramics both in Albisola and Sèvres, creating a number of figurative works – still lifes, animals, female heads, and religious subjects – in which realism succumbs to the expressive tension of the material, the torsions and consolidations of which lend the sculptures their dynamism. The use of iridescence and non-naturalistic colours augments the antimimetic impact, as do the Neo-Baroque undertones repeatedly pointed out by art critics. Albisola was also the place where Fontana made his first ‘Cuttings’ in 1953/54, a long time before the more famous versions on canvas.
Specialist: Maria Cristina Corsini
Maria Cristina Corsini
+39-06-699 23 671
maria.corsini@dorotheum.it
26.11.2014 - 18:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 234,800.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 45,000.- to EUR 55,000.-
Lucio Fontana *
(Rosario di Santa Fe, Argentina 1899–1968 Comabbio)
Crocefisso, 1961, signed and dated on the reverse L. Fontana 61, painted and glazed ceramic, 39.5 x 21 cm
The present work is registered at the Archivio Lucio Fontana, Milan, under no. 2317/8.
Provenance:
Collection Giovanni Rossello, Albisola
Acquired there in 2000 by the present owner
Private Collection, Italy
In the 1930s, Fontana started exploring the potentials of high-fired ceramics both in Albisola and Sèvres, creating a number of figurative works – still lifes, animals, female heads, and religious subjects – in which realism succumbs to the expressive tension of the material, the torsions and consolidations of which lend the sculptures their dynamism. The use of iridescence and non-naturalistic colours augments the antimimetic impact, as do the Neo-Baroque undertones repeatedly pointed out by art critics. Albisola was also the place where Fontana made his first ‘Cuttings’ in 1953/54, a long time before the more famous versions on canvas.
Specialist: Maria Cristina Corsini
Maria Cristina Corsini
+39-06-699 23 671
maria.corsini@dorotheum.it
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| Auction: | Contemporary Art - Part 1 |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 26.11.2014 - 18:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 15.11. - 26.11.2014 |
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