Massimo Campigli *

(Berlin 1895–1971 St. Tropez)
Gioco del diabolo / Quatre femmes jouant au diabolo, 1953, signed and dated, oil on canvas, 102.5 x 134.5 cm
This work is accompanied by photo certificate signed by the artist

Provenance:
E. Estorick Collection, London
Galleria Galatea, Turin
Galleria Sianesi, Turin
Galleria Gissi, Turin
Sale: Christie’s Rome, 23 November 1982, lot 156
Galleria Cafiso, Milan
European Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Exhibited:
Paris, Massimo Campigli, Galerie de France, 12 June – 13 July 1953, exhib. cat no. 6
Wakefield, Contemporary Italian Art, City Art Gallery, 3 April – 2 May 1954, exhib. cat no. 14 (travelling to Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 8 May – 5 June; Salford, City Art Gallery, 12 June – 3 July; Huddersfield, City Art Gallery, 10 July – 7 August; Scarborough, City Art Gallery, 14 August – 11 September; Hull, The Ferens Art Gallery, 18 September – 14 October; New Castle on Tyne, The Hatton Gallery, 23 October – 20 November; York, City Art Gallery, 27 November – 24 December)
Amsterdam, Campigli, Stedelijk, 17 March – 11 April 1955, exhib. cat no. 11 (ill. with wrong dimensions) (travelling to Den Haag, Gemeente Museum, 15 April – 23 May 1955)
Bern, Modigliani-Campigli-Sironi, 20 August – 25 September 1955, exhib. cat p. 15, no. 121
London, Modern Italian Art from Estorick Collection, 21 November – 19 December 1956, exhib. cat no. 71 with ill. p. 27 (travelling to Plymouth, City Museum and Art Gallery, 26 January – 16 February 1957; Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, 23 February – 16 March 1957)
Berlin, Italienische Kunst im XX. Jahrhundert. Sammlung Estorick-London, Galerie Il Milione, Mailand und Bronzen von Marcello Mascherini-Triest, 21 September – 27 October 1957, no. 33
Hamilton, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Modern Italian Art from the Estorick Collection, 1958, exhib. cat no. 37 (travelling to London, Ontario, The London public Library and Art Museum, February 1958, Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, March 1958);
Venice, XXIX Biennale di Venezia, Terza edizione riveduta, 14 June – 19 October 1958, exhib. cat p. 18, no. 9.
Amsterdam, De Estorick verzameling van moderne italiaanse kunst, Stedelijk Museum, 1960, exhib. cat no. 26 (travelling to Eindhoven, Stedelijk von Abbe Museum, April–May 1960)
Vienna, Italienische Kunst der Gegenwart. Die Sammlung Estorik, 17 June – 25 July 1960, exhib. cat no. 24 (travelling to Linz, Neue Galerie der Statd Linz, August 1960)
Turin, Campigli, Galleria Galatea, 18 November – 9 December 1961, exhib. cat no. 15 with ill.
Turin, Massimo Campigli, Galleria Galatea, 27 February – 20 March 1962, exhib. cat with ill.
Turin, Maestri del 900, Gallera Gissi, 28 June – 14 July 1962 (label on the reverse)
Milan, Maestri moderni, Galleria Sianesi, November–December 1970, exhib. cat no. 12.
Bologna, Lo specchio di Giuditta. La favola senza fine di Massimo Campigli, Galleria Marescalchi, from 29 October 1981, exhib. cat p. 67
Venice, Lo specchio di Giuditta. La favola senza fine di Massimo Campigli , in collaboration with Galleria Marescalchi, Bologna and Galleria Ravagnan, Venice, 18 June – 15 September 1983, exh. cat p. 67

Literature:
J. Cassou, Campigli, Editions de l’œuvre Gravée, Paris-Zurich 1957, p. 114
F. Russoli, Campigli. Pittore, Edizioni del Milione, Milan 1965, exhib. cat XVI
Bolaffi, Catalogo Nazionale Bolaffi d’Arte Moderna no. 15, 1979, vol. I, Turin 1979, tav. VI, pp. 48-49
Scrupoli Interattivi 2001, Edizioni Multimediali Artel, Rome 2001
Archives Campigli Saint-Tropez, N. Campigli, E. Weiss, M. Weiss (eds.), Campigli. Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2013, p. 652 no. 50-063 with ill.