LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on shaped canvas

Measurements:

70.25 in. (178.43 cm.) (height) by 48.50 in. (123.19 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'L. Fontana' (lower right); signed and titled '"La fine di Dio" L. Fontana' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Kunsthaus Zurich, Lucio Fontana: Concetto spaziale , April–May 1976, p. 44, no. 93. Bologna, Galleria Communale d’Arte Moderna, Metafisica, del Quotidiano , June–September 1978, p. 72 (illustrated). Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, ’60 – ’80 – Attitudes/Concepts/Images-Performances, Dance, Music, Installation, Video, Film – A Selection from Twenty Years of Visual Arts , April – July 1982, p. 120, no. 3 (illustrated). Monaco di Baviera, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst; Darmstadt, Mathildenhohe and Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Lucio Fontana , December 1983–September 1984, p. 115, no. 93 (illustrated). Toyama, Museum of Modern Art; Karuizawa, Museum of Modern Art Seibu Takanawa; Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art; Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum and Amagasaki, Seibu Tsukashin, Lucio Fontana , April–December 1986, p. 86, no. 80 (illustrated). Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Barcelona, Fundació Caixa de Pensions; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Lucio Fontana , October 1987–September 1988, p. 257 (illustrated in color). Verona, Palazzo Forti, Lucio Fontana: Metafore Barocche , October 2002–March 2003, pp. 105 and 126, no. 46 (illustrated in color)

Literature:

E. Crispolti , Lucio Fontana: C atalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Sculptures et Environnements Spatiaux Rédigé, v. II, Brussels, 1974, pp. 138-139, no. 64 FD 5 (illustrated). E. Crispolti, Fontana: Catalogo Generale, v. II, Milan, 1986, p. 473, no. 64 FD 5 (illustrated). "Asi buscò Lucio Fontana, un artista mistico y sensual, desgarrar el corazòn de la materia. La Caixa de pensions presena una antologica del argentino," ABC, Madrid, 9 February 1988 (illustrated). L. Cirlot, "Lucio Fontana, una nueva concepciòn espacial," Diagonal, Barcelona, 6 March 1988 (illustrated). S. Erasquin, "VI Bienal para jovenes creadores, Oteiza y Lucio Fontana. Las cajas catalanas se abren a lo nuevo y destapan el tarro de la esencia artistica," Expansion, Barcelona, 27 February 1988 (illustrated). K. Puig, "Lucio Fontana o la pasiòn por el cencepto espacial," Grup Caixa Magazine, Barcelona, January 1988, p. 3 (illustrated). E. Rabat, "'Zero,' alli donde il fuego arde con viveza," La Vanguardia, Barcelona, 15 March 1988 (illustrated). E. Crispolti, Fontana: Catalogo Ragionato di Sculture, Dipinti, Ambientazioni, v. II, Milan, 2006, p. 667, no. 64 FD 5 (illustrated)

Provenance:

Galerie Couturier, Paris Private collection, Milan Acquired from the above by present owner