4. Concetto Spaziale, Attesa by Lucio Fontana priced at $1.2 Million
Lucio Fontana has his own style called a “slash painting”. It is a style popularized by the artist himself, and the method is almost what the name suggests: a single-color painting that is highlight by a slash or a series of slashes.
He named it “an art for the Space Age”, and the public willingly shelled out astronomical amounts for the resulting pieces.
This year, Sotheby’s sold Concetto Spaziale, Attese (1965) for $12.9 million. Before that, however, the simplest of these slash paintings, Concetto Spaziale, Attesa had sold for $1.2 million at a Christie’s London auction in 2008.
The piece was dedicated to Fontana’s wife, Teresita, and featured a single slash on a crimson canvas.
