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LUCIO FONTANA (1899-1968)
Il Guerriero (The Warrior)
incised with the artist’s signature 'Fontana' (lower right)
reflective glazed ceramic
42 1/2 x 17 3/8 x 13 3/8in. (108 x 44 x 34cm.)
Executed in 1948
Provenance
Tofanelli Collection, Milan.
Private Collection, Germany.
Thence by descent to the present owner in 1979.
Literature
G. Ballo, Fontana: idea per un ritratto, Turin 1970, no. 107 (illustrated, p. 95; incorrectly titled and dated).
G. Bolaffi (ed.), Dizionario Bolaffi degli scultori italiani moderni, Turin 1972 (illustrated, p. 146; incorrectly titled and dated).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux rédigé par Enrico Crispolti, vol. II, Brussels 1974, p. 22, no. 49 SC 1 (illustrated, p. 23; incorrectly dated).
Lucio Fontana, exh. cat., Munich, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, 1983-1984, no. 13 (illustrated, p. 44; incorrectly dated).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana catalogo generale, vol. I, Milan 1986, no. 48 SC 18 (illustrated, p. 91).
XIV Quadriennale di Roma. Retrospettive 1931/1948, exh. cat., Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, 2005 (illustrated, p. 137).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, vol. I, Milan 2006, no. 48 SC 18 (illustrated, p. 213).
Lucio Fontana, Scultura / Sculpture, exh. cat., Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve, 2012 (illustrated in colour, p. 99).
L. M. Barbero Lucio Fontana Catalogo ragionato delle sculture ceramiche, vol. I, Milan 2022, no. 48 SC 18 (illustrated, p. 369).
Exhibited
Rome, Quadriennale d’Arte di Roma, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rassegna Nazionale di Arti Figurative, 1948, no. CVIII (illustrated, unpaged).
Leverkusen, Museum Morsbroich, Keramische Räume. Ceramic Spaces, Lucio Fontana Norbert Prangenberg Thomas Schütte Rosemarie Trockel Markus Karstiess, 2014 (illustrated in colour, p. 63).
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