Lucio Fontana [by or attrib] (Italian-Argentinian, 1899 - 1968). "Concetto Spaziale, Attesa - Blu". Oil (hydro paint) on canvas. c1966. Bears signature, titled, and annotated, verso. Very good to fine condition. Provenance: Private collection, Florence, Italy. The white "spots" evident in the image are not on the canvas itself, but appear because of the white background behind the canvas, verso. Fontana has deliberately pieced/perforated his canvas, and the heavy, opaque white paper "background" is in place to better display the tears/rips/holes in the canvas. By repute, Fontana sometimes used his wife's underwear to affix to the verso of the canvas, to achieve the same effect. He used "hydro paint," an industrial-use substance, extensively during this period. This work is signed and titled on the verso, like most of Fontana's paintings. He rarely signed his canvases on the recto, especially the "Concetto Spaziale" and "Attesa" examples, because, he said, signing ruined the effect that the cuts or holes achieved on the canvas; the purity of color was lost and the observer was distracted. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image size: 15 x 11 in. (400 x 300 mm). [26432] |8000| {R100} tzzzz~tuzzz