Christies Thinking Italian Evening Auction will take place during Frieze Week on 4 October 2019 and directly follows the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction. The auction will be led by Alberto Burris Sacco (1953, estimate: £3,000,000-5,000,000), a rare, early example of the artists famed Sacchi, the iconic series that he began in 1950 and by an early steel work by Lucio Fontana that encapsulates the artists exploration of space, Concetto spaziale (1954, Estimate on Request). Art for Future, Selected Works from the UniCredit Group will be presented across both evening auctions with Enrico Castellani and Giuseppe Gallo starring in Thinking Italian. Mario Schifanos oeuvre during the 1960s was defined by the artists experimentation as he sought to carve out his indefatigable
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