Lot 15 B. Fontana' lower right ; signed and titled '"La fine di Dio" L. Painted in II, Brussels, , pp. Crispolti, Fontana: Catalogo Generale, v. II, Milan, , p. Las cajas catalanas se abren a lo nuevo y destapan el tarro de la esencia artistica," Expansion, Barcelona, 27 February illustrated.
Rabat, "'Zero,' alli donde il fuego arde con viveza," La Vanguardia, Barcelona, 15 March illustrated. On occasion, Christie's has a direct financial interest in the outcome of the sale of certain lots consigned for sale. This will usually be where it has guaranteed to the Seller that whatever the outcome of the auction, the Seller will receive a minimum sale price for the work.
This is known as a minimum price guarantee. This is such a lot. Brought to you by. Sara Friedlander. The ovoid masterpieces communicate scientific and religious principles aesthetically, in a Neo-Modernist fashion. Fontana executed his magnum opus between March and February on the occasion of three important exhibitions of his work in Zurich, Milan, and Paris.
Fontana quoted in Lucio Fontana , exh. The decision to embed these punctures in an egg formβimplicitly associated with regeneration, rebirth, and the cosmos and tied up with theories about the form of the universeβbrought the generative potential of the holes to a peak.
Shockingly contemporary, the La fine di Dio series transcends the limitations of painting and sculpture. The present masterwork, a marriage of avant-garde and ultra-baroque aesthetics, consists of a large, sleek, monochromatic, egg-shaped canvas that has been dramatically punctured and perforated by allover holes.
