Description
Figure with bread , 1949
oil on canvas
W. 54 - H. 65 cm
W. 54 - H. 65 cm
Signed and dated lower left
Signed, dated, and titled on the reverse
Signed, dated, and titled on the reverse
Origin
Cairola Gallery, Milano
Private collection, Bergamo
Private collection, Bergamo
Authentication
The work is registered with the Renato Birolli Archive under the unique number 1949-11
Bibliography
Renato Birolli. General Catalogue of Works, Feltrinelli, Milan, 1978, p. 254
Cavellini Collection, exhibition catalogue, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH), January 18–March 3, 1958, text by Paul Seylaz
Modern Painters from the Cavellini Collection, exhibition catalogue, G.N.A.M., Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome, May–July 1957, curated by Palma Bucarelli, catalogue by Giovanni Carandente, Editalia, Rome 1957
Review of Contemporary Italian Painting, exhibition catalogue, Venice, March 1949, Fantoni & C., Venice 1949
Antonio Tullier, Renato Birolli, Italian Modern Art No. 50, edited by Giovanni Scheiwiller, Series A, Painters No. 30, Ulrico Hoepli, Milan 1951
Raffaele Carrieri, Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture in Italy (1890–1950), Edizioni della Conchiglia, Milan 1950
Cavellini Collection, exhibition catalogue, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH), January 18–March 3, 1958, text by Paul Seylaz
Modern Painters from the Cavellini Collection, exhibition catalogue, G.N.A.M., Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome, May–July 1957, curated by Palma Bucarelli, catalogue by Giovanni Carandente, Editalia, Rome 1957
Review of Contemporary Italian Painting, exhibition catalogue, Venice, March 1949, Fantoni & C., Venice 1949
Antonio Tullier, Renato Birolli, Italian Modern Art No. 50, edited by Giovanni Scheiwiller, Series A, Painters No. 30, Ulrico Hoepli, Milan 1951
Raffaele Carrieri, Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture in Italy (1890–1950), Edizioni della Conchiglia, Milan 1950
Exhibitions
Cavellini Collection, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH), January 18 – March 3, 1958
Modern Painters from the Cavellini Collection (curated by Palma Bucarelli), G.N.A.M., Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome, May – July 1957 (label on the reverse)
Exhibition of Contemporary Italian Painting, Venice, March 1949
Modern Painters from the Cavellini Collection (curated by Palma Bucarelli), G.N.A.M., Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome, May – July 1957 (label on the reverse)
Exhibition of Contemporary Italian Painting, Venice, March 1949
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