Renato Guttuso, (1912-1987)

Mosaico di figure

Mosaico di figure
signed and dated 'Guttuso 58' (centre right)
oil and collage on paper laid down on canvas
148 x 263.5cm (58 1/4 x 103 3/4in).
Painted in 1958

Provenance
Galleria Il Milione, Milan.
Guffanti Collection, Milan (by 1984).
Anon. sale, Finarte, Milan, 19 December 1991, lot 208.
Private collection, Asti (acquired at the above sale).

Exhibited
Milan, Galleria Il Milione, Renato Guttuso, 19 February - 7 March 1959, no. 18.
Minsk, Belarusian National History and Culture Museum, Novecento Siciliano, 22 October - 30 November 2003, no. 62 (later travelled to Moscow, Barcelona & Palermo).

Literature
Settimo Giorno, Milan, 13 November 1958 (detail illustrated).
G. Kaisserlian, 'Guttuso oltre il realismo', in Rotosei, Rome, 6 March 1959, p. 72.
Vie Nuove, Rome, 7 March 1959 (illustrated).
M. de Micheli, Renato Guttuso, Sofia, 1970, no. 64, p. 128 (incorrectly dated 1964).
E. Gribaudo, Renato Guttuso, Milan, 1976, no. 73.
E. Crispolti, Catalogo ragionato generale dei dipinti di Renato Guttuso, Vol. II, Milan, 1984, no. 58/66 (illustrated p. 121).