(Venice 1907–1990)
Alba sulle falci n.2, 1953, signed and dated;
signed, dated and titled on the reverse,
oil on canvas, 116 x 89 cm, framed

Provenance:
Raccolta Aldo, Venice (stamps on the reverse)
World House Galleries, New York (label on the reverse)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
London, Santomaso, Hannover Gallery, 10 November -
4 December 1953, no. 10
Leverkusen, Italienische Malerei heute, Stadt Museum Morsbroich, 1956, no. 78 (Falken im Dämmerlicht)

Literature:
L. Alfieri, Santomaso. Catalogue raisonné 1931-1974, Alfieri Edizioni d’Arte, Venice 1975, with ill. no. 223
N. Stringa, Santomaso. Catalogo ragionato, Allemandi, Turin 2017, vol. I, pl. 113 with ill., vol. II p. 70 no. 282 with ill.

The shape coincides with the expansion of colour on the surface, the colour halts to give way to another form, a stain renounces movement to give way to another form in a succession of combinations on the plane that does not aim at illusionistic-representative characters, but rather to make people understand the possibilities of a whole made of stasis and movement, of emergence and disappearance.
Nico Stringa, L’esperienza astratta, in catalogue of the exhibition
Giuseppe Santomaso e l’opzione astratta, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice 2008