LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

140.3 x 230.8 cm (55 1/4 x 90 7/8 in.)

Edition:

Painted in 1957.

Description:

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Markings:

signed 'Guttuso' lower right

Condition:

An external condition report is available upon request.

Exhibited:

New York, Aca Heller Gallery, Guttuso, 7 - 28 April 1958, no. 26, p. 31 (illustrated on the cover)
Große Kunstausstellung Mu?nchen at Haus der Kunst, Arte Italiana dal 1910 ad Oggi, 7 June - 15 September 1957, no. 98 (titled as Aranceto grande)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Recent Acquisitions, 30 January - 19 April 1959
Milan, Palazzo Reale (no. 106, p. 197, illustrated, p. 127); Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Arte Italiana del XX Secolo da Collezioni Americane. La Mostra, promossa e studiata dal Museum of Modern Art - New York, è stata realizzata dall'Ente Manifestazioni Milanesi, 30 April - 10 September 1960; then travelled as New York, Santini Brothers Warehouse, 20th Century Italian Art from American Collections, 24 - 26 October 1960
New York, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, 14 May 1965 - 29 April 1976

Literature:

Milton Gendel, ‘Art and artists under Communism. Guttuso: a Party point of view’, ART News, vol. 57, no. 1, March 1958, no. 3, p. 27 (illustrated)
'Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions, January 1, 1958 through December 31, 1958', The Bulletin of The Museum of Modern Art, vol. 26, no. 4, July 1959, p. 20 (illustrated, p. 13)
Alberto Moravia and Franco Grasso, Renato Guttuso, Palermo, 1962, p. 121 (illustrated)
Enrico Crispolti, Catalogo ragionato generale dei dipiniti di Renato Guttuso, vol. II, Milan, 1984, no. 57/68, p. 86 (illustrated)

Provenance:

Mimise Guttuso Collection, Rome <br />Aca Gallery, New York<br />Acquired from the above by the present owner in April 1958