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The Infinite Passion of Life: Works from the Italian Midcentury

Gastone Novelli

La Totale Estinzione

Auction Closed

February 26, 05:59 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Infinite Passion of Life: Works from the Italian Midcentury 

Gastone Novelli 

1925 - 1968


La Totale Estinzione

signed and dated 62 (lower right); signed, titled and dated ‘62 (on the reverse) 

oil on canvas

31 ⅞ by 39 ⅜ in.

81 by 100 cm.

Executed in 1962.

Viviane Simon Stoloff, Paris

Galleria Vinciana, Milan

Private Collection, Milan

Galleria L'Elefante, Treviso

Private Collection, San Guisseppe di Cassola

Guiseppe Niccoli, Parma

Private Collection, Bassano

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Belgrade, The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Segnali italiani dalla Collezione d'Arte Contemporanea alla Farnesina, September - October 2005, pp. 128-29, illustrated

David Zwirner, New York, Roma/New York, 1953–1964, January - February 2023

René de Solier, "Gastone Novelli: Le Songe Toile," Metro, No. 6, June 1962, no. 24, p. 84, illustrated in color

Zeno Birolli, Novelli, Milan 1976, no. 281, p. 220, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Rome, Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, Gastone Novelli: 1925-1968, June - September, 1988, p. 14, illustrated and p. 109

Paola Bonani, Marco Rinaldi and Alessandra Tiddia, Gastone Novelli. Catalogo generale, 1. Pittura e scultura, Milan 2011, n. P/1962/07, p. 230, illustrated in color