Post War & Contemporary Art 
11 March 2021
Post War & Contemporary Art 
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Lucio Fontana 1899–1968

El Auriga

1941
bronze on wood base 21½ h × 5 w × 5 d in (55 × 13 × 13 cm)
estimate: $6,000–8,000
result: $13,750
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Incised to base ‘L.F’. Incised number to side of work ‘1/10’. Stamped foundry mark to side of work ‘FUND F. M.’ This work is number 1 from the edition of 10.
provenance: Collection of Pepi Boritz, New York | CDS Gallery, New York | Rago, 20|21 Art, 20 May 2020, Lot 100 | Private Collection

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This bronze edition (1941) was made from a figure entitled El Auriga (The Charioteer, 1928), which Lucio Fontana submitted as his final diploma piece at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in 1929. It was to be one of several large figures planned for the Monumento a la Bandera (Monument to the Flag) in Rosario, Argentina in 1940–41.

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