Price databaseBrowseSell your artwork
Watchlist

Lucio Fontana: career timeline

Italian · 1899–1968 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 476 of 608 lots (78% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Lucio Fontana: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.
Decade madeWorksSoldMedian sold priceMain medium
1930s74$3.9kSign upOther
1940s297$13.8kSign upOther
1950s8942$12.8kSign upOther
1960s336177$9.1kSign upOther

Where does mine fit?

Enter what you know about a work by Lucio Fontana to see the closest recorded works from the same period, with their auction results. These are past records only, not a valuation: condition, authenticity, provenance and the market all change what a work brings. For an auction estimate of your work, get a free auction estimate.

1930s 7 works

Sold
4 of 7
Median
$3.9kSign up
Average
$182kSign up
Typical size
11.5 × 8.5 in (30 × 21 cm)
Mediums
Other (4), Drawing (2), Sculpture (1)
Subjects
Figures & portraits (2)

1940s 29 works

Sold
7 of 29
Median
$13.8kSign up
Average
$19.1kSign up
Typical size
10 × 8.5 in (26 × 22 cm)
Mediums
Other (14), Drawing (8), Sculpture (6)
Subjects
Figures & portraits (6)
Show 12 more (1940s)

…and 5 more works from this group in the full results list.

1950s 89 works

Sold
42 of 89
Median
$12.8kSign up
Average
$167kSign up
Typical size
12.5 × 10 in (32 × 25 cm)
Mediums
Other (31), Sculpture (17), Print (other) (13)
Subjects
Figures & portraits (1)
Show 12 more (1950s)

…and 65 more works from this group in the full results list.

1960s 336 works

Sold
177 of 336
Median
$9.1kSign up
Average
$141kSign up
Typical size
17.5 × 15 in (45 × 38 cm)
Mediums
Other (135), Etching (42), Multiple (33)
Subjects
Landscapes (2), Figures & portraits (2)
Show 12 more (1960s)

…and 312 more works from this group in the full results list.

Creation date not recorded

130 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2000s 9 works

Sold
9 of 9
Median
$15.2kSign up
Average
$17.1kSign up
Typical size
27.5 × 27.5 in (70 × 70 cm)
Mediums
Other (6), Screenprint (1), Lithograph (1)
Subjects
—
Show 3 more (2000s)

Undated, sold in the 2010s 22 works

Sold
10 of 22
Median
$12.2kSign up
Average
$15.7kSign up
Typical size
13 × 11.5 in (33 × 29 cm)
Mediums
Other (12), Sculpture (3), Etching (3)
Subjects
Figures & portraits (1)
Show 6 more (2010s)

…and 10 more works from this group in the full results list.

Undated, sold in the 2020s 99 works

Sold
56 of 99
Median
$4.2kSign up
Average
$24.7kSign up
Typical size
19.5 × 14 in (50 × 35 cm)
Mediums
Other (48), Print (other) (36), Lithograph (7)
Subjects
Figures & portraits (1)
Show 6 more (2020s)

…and 87 more works from this group in the full results list.

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Lucio Fontana auction results →