ArtistsLucio Fontana
Lucio Fontana

Lucio Fontana

1899–1968
WA-00009308
Rosario de Santa Fe, Argentina
Abstract Art
Representation
None documented
17
Institutional Exhibitions
47
Works in Collection
114
Assets Indexed
13
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
100%
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Authority Records (2)

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Abstractions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988–1989
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Contemporary Works from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988–1989
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Contemporary Works from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1986–1987
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Large Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910�1980
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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Contemporary Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984–1985
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
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Printed Art: A View of Two Decades
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
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Printed, Cut, Folded, and Torn
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974
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Permanent Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972
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Popular Mechanics in Printmaking
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1970

Field Verification (7 fields)

4 cross-verified · 3 single-source
  • Death yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%
  • DeceasedWikidata + Unknown· 92%
  • Birth yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%
  • LocationArtsy + Gallery· 85%
  • NationalityArtsy + Unknown· 85%
  • BiographyGallery Generic + Unknown· 72%
  • Primary mediumUnknown· 20%

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About

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Movement
Abstract Art
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Artworks (47)

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Artwork sources (4)

47 published of 83 catalogued · 63 with image
  • MoMA
    34 publishedof 69 catalogued49 img
  • Art Institute Chicago
    9 published9 img
  • Tate
    4 published4 img
  • + 1 more source · 1 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 4)

4 entries · 1 sources
  • Nature
    1959 · Tate · 1 prov
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  • Spatial Concept
    1958 · Tate · 1 prov
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  • Spatial Concept ‘Waiting’
    1960 · Tate · 1 prov
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  • Spatial Concept
    1949 · Tate · 1 prov
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Images

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Ajax, Front View, from Oeuvre de Canova (1817)
Art Institute of Chicago
Landscape with Jesus and the Samaritan Woman (1572)
Art Institute of Chicago
Christ and the disciples at Emmaus (1572/73)
Art Institute of Chicago
Plate with Story of Numa Pompilius and Arms of Gonzaga (c. 1560)
Art Institute of Chicago
Death Mask of a Woman (c. 1605)
Art Institute of Chicago
The Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents in His Cradle (recto); Crowned Woman Kneeling in Landscape, and Other Sketches (verso) (n.d.)
Art Institute of Chicago
Institutional

Representation & Collections

Gallery
Gagosian
In collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
In collection
Tate
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Background

Education

Brera Academy
Visual Arts
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