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The Auction House Il Ponte is proud to present an extremely rare masterpiece by Lucio Fontana,

Ballerina, a large polychrome and enameled ceramic sculpture of extraordinary quality, realized in 1952. Il Ponte is pleased to announce that this important ceramic, which was donated directly by the artist to a Milanese private collector and kept in the owner’s home since then, will be included in the forthcoming sale of Modern and Contemporary Art on June 11.

“[...] It is the substance, the stupendous chromatic substance of ceramic [...] that contains in itself, in its dense but luminous, iridescent carnality, the most pertinent spatial dimension. Space - matter, [...] dynamic continuity, expressed emblematically as a figure by this open, disarranged, wavelike matter, received through the brightness and iridescence of color.[...]”. 

E. Crispolti, "Carriera barocca di Fontana"

Ballerina, 1952 | Glazed polychrome ceramic h 75 | Estimate € 250.000 - 350.000 | Lot 100