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Provenance: Galleria Notizie Arte Contemporanea, Turin.
B. Dalmastro, Turin.
Private Collection, Turin.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's Milan, 26 May 1998, lot 164.

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Exhibited: Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Lucio Fontana, 1970, no. 91, fig. 87 (illustrated, unpaged).
Verona, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Lucio Fontana metafore barocche, 2002-2003, no. 18, p. 123 (illustrated in colour, p. 52; dated 1960).

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Literature: E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 60 B 20 (illustrated, p. 69).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: catalogo generale, vol. I, Milan 1986, no. 60 B 20 (illustrated, p. 238).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, vol. I, Milan 2006, no. 60 B 20 (illustrated, p. 401).

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Notes: Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite").If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale
signed 'l. fontana' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'l. fontana concetto spaziale 1954' (on the reverse)
pastel and pencil on canvas
39 3/8 x 31½in. (100.2 x 80cm.)