(Bagheria/Palermo 1912–1987 Rome)
Giovane e mostri (Ragazzo che scala Villa Palagonia), 1980, signed; signed and dated on the reverse, oil on canvas, 90 x 100 cm, framed

Provenance:
Pellin Collection, Varese
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Rome, Galleria Rondanini, Renato Guttuso. “Le Allegorie” e altre opere recenti, February – March 1981, exh. cat. no. 18 with ill.
Campobasso, Ente provinciale per il Turismo, Renato Guttuso. “Le Allegorie”, “Le Visite” e altre opere recenti, 9 April – 3 May 1981, exh. cat. no. 29
Sabbioneta, Palazzo Ducale, Guttuso e i giovani, in X Premio Lubiam, 7 – 28 June 1981, exh. cat. no. 12
Palermo, Palazzo Comitini, Guttuso e la Sicilia. Opere dal 1970 ad oggi, 20 April – 31 May 1985, exh. cat. p. 81 with ill.
Milan, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Renato Guttuso. Opere della Fondazione Francesco Pellin, curated by E. Crispolti, 27 January – 6 March 2005, exh. cat. pp. 162–163, no. 51 with ill.

Literature:
Il Giornale di Sicilia, Palermo, 15 February 1981
Avanti!, 20 February 1981
F. Grasso, Renato Guttuso ‘pittore di Bagheria’, Tringale Editore, Catania 1982, p. 115, no. 50 with ill.
AA. VV., Omaggio a Renato Guttuso, Graphis Arte, Livorno 1982, p. 93 with ill.
E. Crispolti, Catalogo ragionato generale dei dipinti di Renato Guttuso, Giorgio Mondadori & Associati, Milan 1985, vol. III, p. 301. no. 80/27 with ill.
E. Crispolti, Catalogo ragionato generale dei dipinti di Renato Guttuso, Giorgio Mondadori & Associati, Milan 1989, vol. IV, p. 235, no. 80/27E.
E. Crispolti, Renato Guttuso. Spes contra spem. Electa, Milan 1997, p. 30 with ill.
E. Crispolti, Renato Guttuso. Spes contra spem, Fondazione Francesco Pellin – Varese, Electa, Milan 2000, p. 30 with ill.

“The following list may give you a better idea of what Prince Palagonia has perpetrated in his madness. Human beings. Beggars of both sexes, men and women of Spain, Moors, Turks, hunchbacks, deformed persons of every kind, dwarfs, musicians, Pulcinellas, soldiers in antique uniforms, gods, and goddesses, persons dressed in French fashions of long ago, soldiers with ammunition pouches and leggings, mythological figures with grotesque accessories; […] Animals. Only parts of them; a horse with human hands, the head of a horse on a human body, deformed monkeys, many dragons and snakes, every kind of paw attached to every kind of body, double heads and exchanged heads.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Italian Journey (1786–1788), transl. W. H. Auden and E. Mayer, Penguin Books,
London, 1970, pp. 239–240 (9 April 1787)