(Lecco 1910–1992 Milan)
Paesaggio, 1957, signed and dated; signed and dated on the reverse, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm, framed

Provenance:
Galleria Gissi, Turin (label and stamp on the reverse)
Finarte, Milan, 1987
Finarte, Milan, 13 December 1990
Guarini Collection, Milan (stamp on the reverse)
Finarte, Milan, 13 June 2001, lot 35
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Turin, Galleria Gissi, Omaggio a Ennio Morlotti, 9 – 20 December 1961, exh. cat.
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Ennio Morlotti, 9 October - 29 November 1987, exh. cat.
Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Informale in Italia, 30 May - 15 July 1987, exh. cat.
Milan, Diarte Galleria Bergamini, Ennio Morlotti. Figure nel paesaggio, I dipinti ad olio, 22 February -12 April 1990, exh. cat.

Literature:
AA.VV., 1987, cat. tav. 62, p.90
C. Porro, Arte all’incanto. Aste Finarte 1990/1991, Longanesi & C., Milan 1991, exh. cat.
G. Bruno, P. G. Castagnoli, D. Biasin, Ennio Morlotti. Catalogo ragionato dei dipinti, Vol I, Skira, Milan 2000, p. 194, no. 298 with ill.

He worked violently, lost, almost blind, with a spatula and accumulation, without rest and without light, he said, in order to understand where to stop. But it is not easy, working on the basis of authenticity, to an undetermined end whose destiny is essential, to understand when to conclude one’s efforts.

F. Arcangeli, Morlotti, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1962; now in Id., Dal romanticismo all‘informale, p. 443