Galleria Gissi, Turin
Private Collection, Milan
Borzo Kunsthandel, Amsterdam
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1997; sale: Sotheby's London, 16 October 2006, lot 9)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Patrick Walberg, Herbert Read & Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Marino Marini, Complete Works, New York, 1970, no. 200, illustrated in colour p. 255
Abraham M. Hammacher, Marino Marini. Scultpure, Painting, Drawing, New York, 1971, no. 243, illustrated in colour
Lorenzo Papi, Marino Marini pittore, Turin,💛 1987, no. 268, illustrated in colour p. 135

Executed on tan-coloured wove paper, laid down on canvas, which has lifted in places, mainly at the corners. There appear to be no signs of retouching visible under UV light. There are a few creases and undulations in places, mainly to the lower corners. Otherwise, this work is in overall very good condition.
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'His paintings are reality revealed. With Marini, never has art been as much about "the invention of the real", if invention is be taken to mean that magic, supreme, fantastic moment from which a new Genesis springs forth. The Genesis of a new truth. His extraordinary love of life leads him to a great art of living. Painting, too, with the same power as sculpture and the same marvellous strength (replete with drama first, then witchcraft), represents horses and riders, broad-buttocked women and jug♈glers'

 

(Lorenzo Papi, Marino Marini pittore, Turin, 1987, p. XIV, 💫translated🌼 from the Italian)