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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