(Verona 1905–1959 Milan)
Landa invernale, 1957–58, signed, signed and dated 57–1958 on the reverse, oil on canvas, 89.5 x 147 cm, framed

Provenance:
A. Wilson Collection, Longlake
Galleria Michelangelo, Bergamo (stamps on the reverse)
Finarte, Rome, 1981, lot 224
Finarte, Milan, 11 November 2015, lot 10
European Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Exhibited:
New York, Renato Birolli, Catherine Viviano Gallery, 7 April - 3 May 1958, exh. cat. no. 9
Venice, Antologica Renato Birolli, XXX Esposizione Biennale Internazionale di Venezia, 1960, exh. cat. pp. 39–41, no. 42
Sondrio, Arte a Milano 1946–1959, Palazzo Sertoli, Credito Valtellinese, 28 February - 26 April 1997

Literature:
R. Birolli, M. Birolli, Z. Birolli, R. Sambonet, Renato Birolli, Feltrinelli, Milan 1978, p. 317, no. 1958 .2 with ill.

“Too many ideal things in reality, too many have been erased. And now I do not have images or even potential ideas. I am truly an abstract painter. I used to think I could get by in hatred, storing up negative energy as a way of feeling alive. But I see that it is only a reaction, a stomach ache, as it were. And that suffering is always a futile task. What stands in front of me is no longer worth anything. And only with this absence can I expunge the hateful figure of time and his supporters.”
Letter to Enzo Brunori, 10 November 1986