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The Infinite Passion of Life: Works from the Italian Midcentury

Antonio Sanfilippo

Untitled

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February 26, 05:59 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

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The Infinite Passion of Life: Works from the Italian Midcentury

Antonio Sanfilippo

1923 - 1980


Untitled

signed (lower right)

tempera on canvas 

56 ½ by 44 ¼ in.

143.5 by 112.4 cm.

Executed in 1955.

Galleria Dello Scudo, Verona

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above in 2019 by the present owner

Milan, Galleria del Naviglio, Antonio Sanfilippo, February - March 1957

Taormina, Chiesa del Carmine, Antonio Sanfilippo: Opere 1953-1967, May - June 1991, pp. 18-19, illustrated in color

Trento, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Palazzo delle Albere, Antonio Sanfilippo 1923 -1980, October 2001- January 2002, no. 21, p. 71, illustrated in color

Milan, Palazzo della Triinnale, Da Balla alla Transavanguardia. Cento anni di arte italiana alla Farnesina, May 2004, no. 18, p. 45, illustrated in color

Belgrade, The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Segnali italiani dalla Collezione d'Arte Contemporanea alla Farnesina, September - October 2005

R. Zuccaro, "Poesia di segni," Quadri e Sculture, no. 26, June - July 1997, p. 61

Marisa Vescovo, "Agenda. Sanfilippo," La Stampa, October 2001

Giuseppe Appella and Fabrizio D'Amico, Antonio Sanfilippo: Catalogo generale dei dipinti dal 1942 al 1977, Rome 2007, no. 166, p. 56, illustrated in color and p. 152, illustrated