(Rosario di Santa Fe, Argentina 1899–1968 Comabbio)
Concetto Spaziale, 1956, inscribed, titled, signed and dated on the reverse: N 70/Concetto spaziale/l. fontana/54, oil, mixed media, and glasses on canvas, 100 x 70 cm, framed

Provenance:
Galleria Blu, Milan (label on the reverse)
Perlstein Collection, Antwerp
Sale Brerarte, Milan, 11 March 1987, no. 77, pp. 44–45 no. 83 with ill.
Private Collection, Vicenza
Amedeo Porro Fine Arts, Lugano-London
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
London, Between space and Earth. Trends in modern Italian Art, Marlborough Fine Arts, 1957
Milan, Fontana, Galleria Blu, 5 October-5 November 1964, exh. cat. no. 12 with ill.
Arezzo, Burri, Cagli, Fontana, Guttuso, Moreni, Morlotti. Sei pittori italiani dagli anni Quaranta ad oggi, Galleria comunale d’Arte Contemporanea,6 May-11 June 1967 (label on the reverse); Rome, Istituto Italo-Latino-Americano, 28 June-27 July 1967, exh. cat. no. LXV with ill. (label on the reverse)
Venice, Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, 2 July-15 October 1978, exh. cat. p. 57, no. 2 (label on the reverse)
Bologna, Bologna si rivela, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, January 2006
Bologna, Antico&Moderno, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, 2021
Bologna, Fiat Lux. Luce nelle Collezioni d’Arte e di Storia della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna, Palazzo Fava, 29 September – 27 November 2022, exh. cat. pp. 52-61.

Literature:
G. Giani, Lucio Fontana, Venice 1958, no. 8 with ill.
P. Bucarelli, E. Crispolti, M. Mendez, J. Romero Brest (ed.), Lucio Fontana. Opere grafiche, Rome-Venice, 1972, catalogue of the exhibition at istituto Italo-Latino Americano, Rome and Fondazione Cini, Venice, no. H with ill.
E. Crispolti (ed.), Lucio Fontana, Catlogue Raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, Brussels 1974, vol. II, pp. 48–49, no. 56 BA 18 with ill.
E. Crispolti (ed.), Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Ragionato, Milan, 1986, vol. I, p. 172–173, no. 56 BA 18 with ill.
E. Crispolti (ed.), Lucio Fontana Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, Skira, Milan 2006, vol. I, p. 325, no. 56 BA 18 with ill.

Note:
Referable to 1956 despite the inscribed date. In an early version (cf. Giani, 1958), also used in the 1974 and 1986 editions of the Catalogue Rasonné, the lower form is white, changed to black by the artist probably in the early 1960s
This work is framed with an original and precious Sabatelli frame.