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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)

Professions: Sculptor; Painter

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    s - Lucio Fontana , 1899-1968 Concetto Spaziale, La Fine di Dio waterpaint, oil and glitter on canvas

    s - Lucio Fontana , 1899-1968 Concetto Spaziale, La Fine di Dio waterpaint, oil and glitter on canvas

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    Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)

    Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)

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    Concetto spaziale, Attesa

    Concetto spaziale, Attesa

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    LUCIO FONTANA

    LUCIO FONTANA

Lucio Fontana Biography

(b Rosario, Santa Fé, 19 Feb 1899; d Comabbio, nr Varese, 7 Sept 1968). Italian painter, sculptor and theorist of Argentine birth. He moved with his family to Milan in 1905 but followed his father back to Buenos Aires in 1922 and there established his own sculpture studio in 1924. On settling again in Milan he trained from 1928 to 1930 at the Accademia di Brera, where he was taught by the sculptor Adolfo Wildt; Wildt’s devotion to the solemn and monumental plasticity of the Novecento Italiano group epitomized the qualities against which Fontana was to react in his own work. Fontana’s sculpture The Harpooner (gilded plaster, h. 1.73 m, 1934; Milan, Renzo Zavanella priv. col., see 1987 exh. cat., p. 118) is typical of his work of this period, with a dynamic nervousness in the thin shape of the weapon poised to deliver a final blow and in the coarse and formless plinth. Soon afterwards, together with other northern Italian artists such as Fausto Melotti, Fontana abandoned any lingering Novecento elements in favour of a strict and coherent form of abstraction. In 1934 he became a member of Abstraction–Création and went on to take part in the Corrente group’s exhibitions.

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  • FONTANA. HAHN Otto. PORTRAIT D'ANTONIN ARTAUD. AVEC 5 ŒUVRES ORIGINALES DE LUCIO FONTANA. Paris, Le Soleil Noir, 1968. In-8, pleine peau noire de l'édition portant sur le premier plat le titre imprimé à froid, broché., Lucio Fontana, €2,000

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    FONTANA. HAHN Otto. PORTRAIT D'ANTONIN ARTAUD. AVEC 5 ŒUVRES ORIGINALES DE LUCIO FONTANA. Paris, Le Soleil Noir, 1968. In-8, pleine peau noire de l'édition portant sur le premier plat le titre imprimé à froid, broché.

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