(Vienna 1925–1968 Milan)
‘La rete di Brahma’, 1962, signed, dated Novelli 62, titled, signed, dated Novelli 62 on the reverse, mixed media on canvas, 60 x 70 cm, framed, (AR)

Provenance:
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles (label on the stretcher)
Studio Marconi, Milan (label on the stretcher)
European Private Collection

Exhibition:
New York, Landau Alan Gallery, Gastone Novelli, 4–30 October 1969, exh. cat., no. 9

Literature:
Zeno Birolli (ed.), Novelli, Feltrinelli, Milan, 1976, p. 223, no. 297, ill.;
Bolaffi, Catalogo dell’Arte Moderna Italiana, no. 25, Giorgio Mondadori & Associati (publisher), Milan 1989, p. 124, ill.;
‘Gabriella Belli, Per andare a vedere di persona…’, in: Gastone Novelli 1925–1968, exh. cat., Trento, Palazzo delle Albere, 14 May – 22 September 1999, p. 12 (curated by P. Vivarelli) ;
Paola Bonani, Marco Rinaldi, Alessandra Tiddia, Gastone Novelli. Catalogo generale, vol. I , Pittura e scultura, Silvana editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, 2011, p. 231, no. P/1962/11

Painting is a language-universe and in this respect working with painting means to investigate, catalogue, collect fragments and signs and to give all this material a logical structure (or an arbitrary one) that enables us to carry out simultaneous conversations (records) that no machine (a method that is alien to the language in question) will ever be able to classify and resolve definitely.
Gastone Novelli