Powerful works by Lucio Fontana, Gerhard Richter, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Egon Schiele all sold well, with some achieving record prices.

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Collectors and dealers also flocked to Lucio Fontana, the Italian artist who gained international fame in the 1950s by slashing his monochrome canvases with a knife.

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Post-war Italian designers, such as Lucio Fontana, who was also a painter and sculptor, battered, hammered and gouged out sheets of thinnest gold to make luminous and humorous works.

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The only real evidence of the De Soles's worldly life is their art collection, which features works by Cy Twombly, Brice Marden and Mark Rothko, alongside modern Italian artists such as Giorgio Morandi, Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana and Alighiero Boetti.

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