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Lucio Fontana
[Argentine-born Italian Arte Povera Sculptor and Painter, 1899-1968]
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Lucio Fontana Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Lucio Fontana available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City Click "View all" to see a total of 7 works online
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW! "Artists in Depth" page for Lucio Fontana
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW! (Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Calderara Foundation Collection, Milan, Italy 6 works online
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish) 
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (in Italian) 
Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, Italy When last checked, all but one of the works displayed were by Lucio Fontana
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin 3 works online
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin 2 works online
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
Hammer Museum, California Concetto spaziale, 1961
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Alphabetically under "F"
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin Concetto Spaziale-Attesa (Spatial Concept - Expectation)
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian) 
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish) 
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona Concetto spaziale, 1957
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida Spatial Concept - Ellipse, 1967
Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy (in Italian)  Information about a 2008-2009 exhibition: Lucio Fontana. Luce e Colore
Palazzo Grassi, Venice - the François Pinault Foundation exhibition space Ambiente spaziale, 1968
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish) 
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) 
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  Concetto spaziale. Attese 140
S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium
Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany 1 work online
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands Concetto Spaziale, 1955
Villa Croce Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy (in Italian)  5 works online
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums Quattro Litografie di Lucio Fontana
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch) 
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales Scroll down to the highlights from the Herbst (Autumn) 2005 sale
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian) 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project Spatial Concept: Nature
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan (in Italian) 
Chris Miller's Gallery of Figure Sculpture of the 20th Century
Konex Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Articles and Reference Sites:
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Art + Auction Magazine Concetto Spaziale, La Fine di Dio, 1963
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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 Lucio Fontana
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