Alberto Burri

Guglielmo Achille Cavellini Collection, Brescia

Acquired from the above circa 1975 by the present owner

São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, Artistas Italianos de Hoje na Terceira Bienal de São Paulo – Brasil, June – October 1955, no. 3, p. 3 (titled Saco e Preto 3 and incorrectly dated 1954)

Venice, Galleria del Cavallino, Burri, September 1956

Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Pittori Moderni della Collezione Cavellini, May – July 1957, no. 82, pl. 24, n.p., illustrated

La Chaux-de-Fonds, Musée des Beaux Arts; and Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Collection Cavellini, January – April 1958, no. 58 (La Chaux-de-Fonds); no. 19 (Basel); n.p., illustrated

Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, II. Documenta ’59: Kunst nach 1945, Internationale Ausstellung, July – October 1959, no. 2, p. 117, illustrated

L’Aquila, Castello Cinquecentesco, Omaggio a Burri: Retrospettiva Antologica 1948-1961, July – August 1962, no. 24, p. 112 (checklist); pl. 12, n.p., illustrated

Ancona, Liceo Scientifico, Premio Marche 1964: 8a Mostra Nazionale di arti Figurative, September 1964, n.p., illustrated

Brescia, Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Pittori nella collezione Cavellini nella Galleria d’arte moderna, 1964 – 1971 (extended loan), n.p., illustrated

New York, The Museum of Modern Art (organiser); Aurora, Wells College; Gambier, Kenyon College; Wilmington, Wilmington College; Portland, Portland Art Museum; Sarasota, Ringling Museum of Art; Tampa, University of South Florida; Oswego, State University of New York; Clinton, Hamilton College; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Iowa City, University of Iowa; and Columbus, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana, September 1966 – February 1968, no. 8, n.p., (checklist)

Attilio Bertolucci, “I pittori del capogiro,” L’illustrazione Italiana, issue 84, no. 7, Milan 1957, p. 61, illustrated

Lionello Venturi, “La Collezione Cavellini,” I 4 Soli, no. 3, May - June 1957, p. 11, illustrated

Achille Cavellini, Arte Astratta, Milan 1958, p. 152, illustrated in colour

Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, “Architettura Scultura Pittura Grafica Arti decorative e industriali Arti della visione,” Sele Arte, no. 38, November – December 1958, no. 97, p. 46, illustrated

Klaus Jurgen-Fischer, “Documenta II à Cassel,” Aujourd’hui, no. 23, September 1959, p. 41, illustrated (installed in Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, II Documenta ’59: Kunst nach 1945, Internationale Ausstellung, 1959)

Cesare Brandi, Burri, Rome 1963, no. 43, n.p., illustrated

Francesco Negri Arnoldi, Mina Bacci, Bruno Toscano, et. al., Storia dell’Arte, vol. III, Milan 1968, no. 825, p. 638, illustrated in colour

Maurizio Calvesi, Alberto Burri, Milan 1971, no. 28, n.p., illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Genova, Palazzo dell'Accademia and Genova, Palazzo Reale, Immagine per la Città, 1972, no. 101, p. 126, illustrated

Gigi Salvagnini, ed., Storia dell’arte in Italia, Bologna 1986, no. 296, p. 313, illustrated in colour

Nemo Sarteanesi, ed., Burri, Contributi al Catalogo Sistematico, Città di Castello 1990, no. 422, p. 105, illustrated in colour

Silvana Barni and Emanuela Porta Casucci, “Alberto Burri al Cid/Arti visive,” Biblioteche Oggi, no. 8, October 1995, p. 73 (text, titled Sacco e Nero)

Exh. Cat., Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Carlo Cardazzo. Una nuova visione dell'arte, 2008–09, p. 308 (text)

Exh. Cat., Verona, Galleria dello Scudo, Alberto Burri Opera al Nero Cellotex, 1972-92, 2012–13, pp. 206, 213, and 241 (text)

Bruno Corà, ed., Alberto Burri. General Catalogue, Painting 1945-1957, vol. I, Città di Castello 2015, no. 427 and i.5524, p. 181, illustrated in colour

Bruno Corà, ed., Alberto Burri. Catalogo Generale Repertorio Cronologico 1945-1994, vol. VI, Città di Castello 2015, no. 427 and i.5524, p. 97, illustrated in colour

Enrico Crispolti, ed., Burri Esistenziale, Macerata 2015, p. 246 (text)

Francesco Tedeschi, ed., Alberto Burri nell'arte e nella critica, Milan 2015, pp. 21, 47, 49, and 120 (text)