Art Market
A rare, large crimson work with a single slash, which Fontana dedicated to his wife and which has always been known as the Teresita, fetched a record £6.7m ($11.6m) at Christie’s London in 2008. Even more popular are the Fontana's oval canvases. Sotheby’s sold a work titled Concetto spaziale, la fine di dio (1963) for £10.32m in 2008. Part of Fontana's Venice circle, Festival on the Grand Canal was sold at Christie’s in New York for $7m in 2008.
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