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LUCIO FONTANA 1899 –1968 and OSVALDO BORSANI 1911–1985 Rare coffee table, 1952 Reverse hand-painted glass, walnut. 46 × 92 × 103.5 cm (18 1/8 × 36 1/4 × 40 3/4 in) Manufactured by Borsani, Italy. Tabletop signed with ‘L. Fontana’. Lucio Fontana Archive no. 3605/1.
Estimate £32,000 –38,000 $50,800 – 60,300 €38,300 – 45,500
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PROVENANCE Private collection, Italy LITERATURE Irene de Guttry and Maria Paola Maino, Il Mobile Italiano degli Anni ’40 e ’50, Rome, 1992, similar examples on p. 113 fig. 116
Leonardo de Luca, ed., Osvaldo Borsani: a cura di Giuliana Gramigna e Fulvio Irace, Milan, 1992, similar examples on pp. 198–99, 235–36 Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana: Catalogo raginato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, vol. II, Milan, 2006, similar examples on pp. 911–12, 914, 916–17, 921
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