(Pistoia 1901–1980 Viareggio)
‘Il circo’, 1958–59, verso titled, signed and dated 1958–59, acrylic and tempera on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, framed, (PP)

This work is registered at the Fondazione Marino Marini, Pistoia as no. 95.

Photo certificate:
Fondazione Marino Marini, Pistoia, 30 April 2013

Provenance:
Galleria G. Zanini, Rome, archive no. 269 (verso 2 stamp with the signature of Giuseppe Zanini with 2 further stamps on the stretcher)
Galleria Toninelli, Milan, archive no. 249 (verso label and stamp)
Private Collection, Italy

Literature:
A. M. Hammacher, Marino Marini: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Abrams edit., London, 1970, no. 253 with ill.;
E. Steingräber/L. Papi, Marino Marini pittore, Priuli & Verlucca edit., Ivrea, 1987, page 206, no. 289 with ill.

Marino’s paintings are pervaded by joy of life, or better, the enjoyment of life, or even better, a joyous emotion.His expressiveness closely follows the concept of “Love” and its object. It is universal Love. Marino’s paintings are polychrome X-rays of his sculpture. They are sections, or more precisely, cross-sections of his three-dimensional universal world that starts from the infinitely small and achieves its essential coagulation in a finite balance (between space and time) and sometimes even reaches infinity. His colours, his magic and extremely rich palette, are also completely “invented”. They are colours created by Marino’s imagination, colours that may not have existed before and that derive, as if through a budding process, from contrasting and yet harmonious contacts.
(Erich Steingräber)