(Bagheria/Palermo 1912–1987 Rome)
Palermo: Case al Monte Pellegrino, c. 1966, signed; signed on the reverse, oil on canvas, 106 x 126 cm, framed

Provenance:
Gildo Dal Cin Collection, Milan
Galleria Giulio Cesare, Rimini
Galleria Internazionale, Montecatini Terme (inscription on the reverse)
Remo Bianco Collection, Milan
Galleria d’Arte Mentana, Florence (label and stamp on the reverse)
Sale Christie’s Milan, 1 January 1970
Galleria Medea, Milan
Galleria Annunciata, Milan (label and stamp on the reverse)
Sale Christie’s Milan, 17 May 1999, lot 232 (certificate available)
Sale Farsettiarte Prato, 30 November 2019, lot 565
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Milan, Bruno Cassinari, Renato Guttuso, Ennio Morlotti, Galleria Medea, 10 May-3 June 1973, exh. cat. no. 17
Biella, Renato Guttuso, Galleria Mercurio, 10 March – 5 April 1973

Literature:
A. Del Guercio (ed.), Renato Guttuso, Collana d’Arte Club Amici Centro Arte Annunciata, Milan 1971, no. 36
E. Crispolti (ed.), Catalogo Ragionato Generale dei Dipinti di Renato Guttuso, Mondadori & Associati, Milan 1984, vol. III, p. 12, no. 66/27 with ill.

”An artist only speaks of the things he knows, the things he understands, the things with which he has experienced a profound communion all his life, since before he was even conscious. My connection with Sicily is so deep that it comes out. Pirandello recounted gossip from the pharmacy in Porto Empedocle and it was understood in Alaska and Japan. When you say something true, something deep, it always becomes universal. Part of the human heart is universal.“

From an interview by director Giuseppe Tornatore with Renato Guttuso.
Guttuso’s diary, 1982 (Excerpt).