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Christie's, meanwhile, will illustrate Fontana's contrasting moods in two examples of his famous "Concetto spaziale" series in which the artist slashes and digs into canvases: an ominous inky-black painting from 1962 has a dark and mysterious presence (estimate: £1.6 million-£2 million), and a luminous blue, slashed painting from 1964 has an almost lyrical effect (estimate: £350,000-£450,000).

From Ornate to Sublime Margaret Studer 2011

“Sometimes they are,” added an inky-black lady with an ugly scar on the left side of her mug.

Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

“Sometimes they are,” added an inky-black lady with an ugly scar on the left side of her mug.

Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

But it's his hair: it's not inky-black any more, or cobalt-blue.

Marc Jacobs Gets Hair Transplant, Says He Isn't Married 2010

It's not the stars themselves that have vanished, but rather the inky-black backdrop against which they used to be visible.

Want to see better? We'd have to turn out the lights. Ben Harder 2010

But it's his hair: it's not inky-black any more, or cobalt-blue.

Marc Jacobs Gets Hair Transplant, Says He Isn't Married 2010

On the table, in a wicker tray, there are blue stones, polished amethysts, inky-black pebbles from a stream, marbles with clouds of color like smoke trapped inside.

The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010

She wore an aquamarine shalwar kameez that was at once diaphanous and utterly modest, and had inky-black hair that streamed down her back.

Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009

#2: Not too bad, aside from the inky-black, badly placed writing.

No, No, No! THIS is How You Resign with a Cake. Jen 2009

She wore an aquamarine shalwar kameez that was at once diaphanous and utterly modest, and had inky-black hair that streamed down her back.

Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009