(Vienna 1925–1968 Milan)
Genesi della ‘B’, 1965, signed Novelli, titled, signed, dated Novelli 65 on the reverse, oil and tempera on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, framed, (MCC)

Photo certificate:
Archivio Gastone Novelli, Rome, archive no.10652T100100

Provenance:
Collection Marina Lund, Rome
Brerarte auction no. 73, Milan, 1986
Brerarte auction no. 79, Milan 1987 (both dated 1964)
Galleria Marlborough, Rome (label on the reverse inscribed no. R 721)
Private Collection, Italy

Exhibition:
Florence, XVII Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Premio del Fiorino, Palazzo Strozzi, May - June 1966, exh. cat. no. 163

Literature:
Zeno Birolli (curator), Novelli, Feltrinelli, 1976, p. 235, no. 362, with ill.;
Bolaffi Catalogo dell’Arte Moderna Italiana no. 23, G. Mondadori, Milan 1987, p. 110;
P. Bonani / M. Rinaldi / A. Tiddia, Gastone Novelli, Catalogo generale 1. Pittura e Scultura, Silvana editoriale, 2011, p. 304, no. p/1965/45 with ill.

There is the hope that every act, be it definitive or experimental, may bring us closer to truth, to synthesis, and have a consequence of its own. In this way, our work does not remain a merely intimate expression, but acquires a human value and a social function.
Gastone Novelli ,1957