Lot 22 | Renato Birolli (1905-1956)
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Incendio nelle Cinque Terre signed and dated 'Birolli 1957' (lower right); signed, inscribed and dated 'Renato Birolli Anversa 1957' (on the reverse) and titled 'Incendio nelle Cinque Terre' (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 451/2 x 57 1/8in. (115 x 145cm.) Painted in 1957 PROVENANCE Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York. Stanley J. Seeger, Frenchtown, New Jersey. His sale; Sotheby's Milan, 25 May 1998, lot 28 (sold for ITL129 million). Galleria Dante Vecchiato, Padua. Acquired at the above by the present owner in 2000. LITERATURE Z. Birolli, Birolli, Milan, 1978, no. 1957.49 (767) (illustrated p. 314). EXHIBITION Venice, XXX Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, 1960, no. 139. Princeton, The Art Museum, Princeton University, The Stanley J. Seeger Collection, 1961, no. 37.

