Acquired directly from the artist by Willem Sandberg for the Peter Stuyvesant Collection in October 1964

Hamburg, Kunstverein, Giuseppe Santomaso, Gemälde und Gouachen 1947-1965, 1965, p. 20, no. 55, illustrated
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Le Musée dans l'Usine, Collection Peter Stuyvesant, 1966
Quebec, Museum (& travelling), Art in the Factory / Le Musée dans l'Usine, 1968-1969
Sankt Gallen, Kunstmuseum (& travelling), Le Musée  dans l' Usine, 1970-1971
The Hague, Pulchri Studio, Peter Stuyvesant Collectie, 1972
Zug, Huberte Goote Gallery, The Peter Stuyvesant Collection, 1992-1993

Harry Abrams, Hans Jaffé, et al., Adventure in Art, An International Group of Art Collections in Industrial Environments, Milan & Amsterdam 1970, p. 128, illustrated in colour  
Luisa Alfieri, Santomaso. Catalogue Raisonné 1931-1974, Venice 1975, no. 460, illustrated

Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the overall tonality is softer in the original with the hues or orange tending more to a cold cream. Condition: This work is in good condition. There are some cracks in places throughout, most notably running diagonally from the upper corners of the composition (faintly visible in the catalogue illustration). There is an area of circular cracks to the darker paint in the centre of the right half of the composition and a further smaller circular network of cracks towards the lower left corner. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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This work is registered under Number Sot / 1019 in the Santomaso Archive, care of Galleria Blu, Milano