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Giuseppe Santomaso
La Vite Viola, 1952.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 47,200 Sold:
€ 46,698 / $ 55,103 (incl. surcharge)
282
Giuseppe Santomaso
La Vite Viola, 1952.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 47,200 Sold:
€ 46,698 / $ 55,103 (incl. surcharge)
Giuseppe Santomaso
1907 - 1990
La Vite Viola. 1952.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left. Signed on the reverse of the canvas. 80.5 x 120.5 cm (31.6 x 47.4 in). [AW].
• Powerful combination of informal, colorful abstraction and a free, graphic style.
• In 1952, Santomaso co-founded the Italian artist group “Fronte Nuovo delle Arti” and was one of the most important protagonists of abstract art in post-war Italy.
• In 1955, 1959, and 1964, he participated in documenta I, II, and III in Kassel.
• Works by Giuseppe Santomaso are in leading museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
PROVENANCE: Cavellini Collection, Bergamo.
Comm. Ezio Casamonti Collection, Florence (with the collection label on the reverse of the canvas).
Private collection, southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1983).
EXHIBITION: V Mostra Nazionale d'Arte, Pinacoteca di Alessandria, Alessandria, 1952, cat. no. 27 (with illu. on p. 10).
IV Premio Nazionale di Pittura “Golfo della Spezia,” Palazzo delle Scuole, Lerici, 1952, cat. no. 6, p. 34 (with exhibition labels on the reverse of the stretcher).
Dodici pittori italiani, Galleria Il Milione, Milan, 1953, cat. no. 28.
Pittori moderni dalla Collezione Cavellini, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, 1957, cat. no. 155, p. 43.
Collection Cavellini, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1958, cat. no. 128, p. 19.
LITERATURE: Alfieri Edizioni D'Arte (ed.), Santomaso. Catalogue raisonné. 1931-1974, Venice 1975, CR no. 205 (with illu. on plate 31, p. 63).
Nico Stringa (publ.), Laura Poletto, Elisa Prete (eds.), Giuseppe Santomaso. Catalogo ragionato, vol. 2, Turin 2017, CR no. 255 (with black-and-white illustration, p. 62, with color illustration, plate 28).
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Renato Birolli, Due esemplari della collezione del concittadino Achille Cavellini, in: Terra Nostra, July/August 1953 (with illustration).
Giovanni Marchiori, Appunti su Santomaso, in: Saletta degli Amici dell'Arte (ed.), Santomaso dalla Saletta, Modena 1955.
Lionello Venturi, Santomaso, in: Commentari, VI., II, April-June 1955, p. 135.
Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Pittori contemporanei, in: Sele Arte, VII, No. 38, November-December 1958, No. 85 (with ill. p. 42).
Alessio Cannistraro, Pittura contemporanea nelle collezioni private, Florence 1971, p. 478 (with illustration).
Stefania Portinari, Santomaso: l'opera grafica, in: Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte, no. 33, (2009) 2010, pp. 496f.
1907 - 1990
La Vite Viola. 1952.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left. Signed on the reverse of the canvas. 80.5 x 120.5 cm (31.6 x 47.4 in). [AW].
• Powerful combination of informal, colorful abstraction and a free, graphic style.
• In 1952, Santomaso co-founded the Italian artist group “Fronte Nuovo delle Arti” and was one of the most important protagonists of abstract art in post-war Italy.
• In 1955, 1959, and 1964, he participated in documenta I, II, and III in Kassel.
• Works by Giuseppe Santomaso are in leading museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
PROVENANCE: Cavellini Collection, Bergamo.
Comm. Ezio Casamonti Collection, Florence (with the collection label on the reverse of the canvas).
Private collection, southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1983).
EXHIBITION: V Mostra Nazionale d'Arte, Pinacoteca di Alessandria, Alessandria, 1952, cat. no. 27 (with illu. on p. 10).
IV Premio Nazionale di Pittura “Golfo della Spezia,” Palazzo delle Scuole, Lerici, 1952, cat. no. 6, p. 34 (with exhibition labels on the reverse of the stretcher).
Dodici pittori italiani, Galleria Il Milione, Milan, 1953, cat. no. 28.
Pittori moderni dalla Collezione Cavellini, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, 1957, cat. no. 155, p. 43.
Collection Cavellini, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1958, cat. no. 128, p. 19.
LITERATURE: Alfieri Edizioni D'Arte (ed.), Santomaso. Catalogue raisonné. 1931-1974, Venice 1975, CR no. 205 (with illu. on plate 31, p. 63).
Nico Stringa (publ.), Laura Poletto, Elisa Prete (eds.), Giuseppe Santomaso. Catalogo ragionato, vol. 2, Turin 2017, CR no. 255 (with black-and-white illustration, p. 62, with color illustration, plate 28).
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Renato Birolli, Due esemplari della collezione del concittadino Achille Cavellini, in: Terra Nostra, July/August 1953 (with illustration).
Giovanni Marchiori, Appunti su Santomaso, in: Saletta degli Amici dell'Arte (ed.), Santomaso dalla Saletta, Modena 1955.
Lionello Venturi, Santomaso, in: Commentari, VI., II, April-June 1955, p. 135.
Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Pittori contemporanei, in: Sele Arte, VII, No. 38, November-December 1958, No. 85 (with ill. p. 42).
Alessio Cannistraro, Pittura contemporanea nelle collezioni private, Florence 1971, p. 478 (with illustration).
Stefania Portinari, Santomaso: l'opera grafica, in: Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte, no. 33, (2009) 2010, pp. 496f.
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