Thinking Italian Marks 25 Years: Christie's Italian Art Sale Moves from Rome to Paris

Fatti principali

• Thinking Italian, Christie's format dedicated to Italian art of the 20th and 21st centuries, was founded in 2000 and marks 25 years in 2026.
• The sale joins the 20th/21st Century: Paris Evening Sale on 22 October during Art Basel Paris week.
• Preview events were held at Hotel de Russie in Rome on 23 and 24 September and at Palazzo Clerici in Milan.
• Works come from Germany, Japan, the United States, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Italy, many from private collections and off the market for decades.
• Lucio Fontana's Concetto Spaziale, Mezzogiorno in Piazza S. Marco (1961) is offered at auction for the first time, after over forty years in one family collection and only three public exhibitions.
• The Fontana belonged to Paolo Marinotti, collector and founder of Palazzo Grassi.
• A pink Fontana Concetto spaziale, Attese (1966) comes from a Japanese institution and was shown at Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo (1990) and Mitsukoshi Museum of Art (1992).
• Christie's cites the 2014 London sale Eyes Wide Open: An Italian Vision, which reached £38.4 million and set fourteen world auction records, and over thirty-six world records for Italian artists over 25 years.
• Thinking Italian moved from London to Paris in 2023, joining Avant-Garde(s) and the Art Basel Paris calendar.