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From a Private Collection, Milan

Gastone Novelli

It was where I was born but where I was born didn't matter

Auction Closed

November 23, 07:08 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Gastone Novelli

1925 - 1968

It was where I was born but where I was born didn't matter


signed, titled and dated 68

oil, pencil and glue on canvas


(firmato, intitolato e datato 68

olio, matita e colla su tela)


cm 204,3x79,7; inches 80.43 by 31.37

Framed: cm 205,7x81x4; inches 80.98 by 31.88 by 1.57

Galleria Marlborough, Rome

Libreria dell'Oca, Rome

Studio Marconi, Milan

Galleria del Milione, Milan

Private collection, Milan

Renato Delfino Collection, Milan

Finarte Rome, 1972, lot 5

G. Fantoni Collection, Milan

Thence by descent to the present owner (Ivi acquisito dall'attuale proprietario)

Venice, Giardini di Castello, XXIV Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, 1968, p. 37, n. 7 (the work was exhibited and withdrawn)

Rome, Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Gastone Novelli, 1970, n. 15, illustrated

Milan, Studio Marconi, Gastone Novelli, 1971, n. 3, illustrated

Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Gastone Novelli, 1972, p. 61, tav. 71

Milan, Palazzo Reale, La ricerca dell'identità, 1974, n. 213, illustrated

G. Visentini, La Biennale non contestata, in "Il Messaggero", Rome, June 1968

G. Novak, Gastone Novelli, in "D'Ars Agency", Milan, n. 45, March-July 1969, pp. 117, n. 3, illustrated

L. Tundo, Un poetico bisturi: Novelli alla Marlborough, in "Arte e Poesia", Rome, n. 7, January-March 1970, p. 137

Exh. catalogue, Rome, Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Gastone Novelli, 1970, n. 15, illustrated

E. Schloss, Lyrical Work From the Late Novelli, in "International Herald Tribune", London-Paris, 16-17 May 1970

Catalogo nazionale Bolaffi d'arte moderna n. 9, Turin 1973, vol. I, p. 176 (titled Fu dove io nacqui)

Catalogo nazionale Bolaffi d'arte moderna n. 11, Turin 1975, vol. IV, p. 51

Z. Birolli, Novelli, Milan 1976, pp. 171, 274, n. 533, illustrated

A. Perilli, Gli scritti di Gastone Novelli, in "Grammatica", Rome, n. 5, May 1976, p. 91, illustrated (detail)

Z. Birolli, L'uomo-coyote, in Novelli by Z. Birolli, Milan 1976, p. 31

Exh. catalogue, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, L’Oriente rosso. Gastone Novelli alla Biennale del Sessantotto, 1998

C. Bertelli, Come si scrive Novelli? Where was I born?, in Gastone Novelli by. P. Vivarelli, 1999, p. 5

Z. Birolli, Su foglietti 1980-84. Appunti in versi per accompagnare i lavori di Romiti Licini Novelli Birolli Agnetti Fontana Melotti, Mantova 2000, illustrated

Paola Bonami, Gastone Novelli. Catalogo generale, 1. Pittura e scultura, Milan 2011, p. 274, n. P/1968/08, illustrated in colour