Tête de diable rouge, circa 1950
Plaster, sawdust, glue, pigments, aluminum, and metal wires on panel
Signed lower left
60×48×12cm
Provenance
- Ritsch-Fisch Gallery, Strasbourg
- Acquired from the latter by the current owner
Exhibitions
- Solothurn, Freitagsgalerie Imhof, "Piccolo Museo Podesta," 1981
- Lausanne, Collection de l'Art Brut, "Giovanni Battista Podesta," 1987-1988, reproduced in the exhibition catalog
- Fribourg, Espace Niki de Saint-Phalle, "Tinguely and Podesta," September 10, 2003 - April 18, 2004, reproduced in the exhibition catalog
- Lausanne, Collection de l'Art Brut, "Giovanni Battista Podesta," 2003-2004
- Basel, Jean Tinguely Museum, "Podesta," May 1-August 22, 2004
- Grignan, Espace d'Art François-Auguste Ducros, "Je collectionne," May 19-September 13, 2009
- Paris, "Art Paris," Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, 2010
- Paris, La Maison Rouge / Berlin, Me Collector Room, "Tous cannibales," February 12-May 15, 2011
- Beaufort-en-Anjou, Musée Joseph Denais, "Joseph et moi, un portrait croisé de collectionneurs" (Joseph and Me, a Cross-Portrait of Collectors), July 9-November 2, 2011, reproduced in the exhibition catalog
- Paris, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, La Maison Rouge, "Le mur, collection Antoine de Galbert," June 14-September 21, 2014, reproduced in the exhibition catalog
- Hauterives, Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval, "Elevations, tribute by collectors Bruno Decharme and Antoine de Galbert to Joseph Ferdinand Cheval," April 30-August 30, 2015, reproduced in the exhibition catalog
- Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, "Souvenirs de voyage. La collection d'Antoine de Galbert," April 27-July 28, 2019, reproduced in the exhibition catalog
- Lyon, MAC, "Désordres, extraits de la collection Antoine de Galbert" (Disorder, excerpts from the Antoine de Galbert collection), March 8-July 7, 2024, reproduced in the exhibition catalog
Bibliography
- "L'Art Brut di Giovanni Battista Podesta," Museo della Ceramica, Palazzo Perabo, Cerro-Laveno, Monbello, 1994
- L. Peiry, "L'Art Brut," Editions Flammarion, Paris, 1996, reproduced in color on p. 138
- Art Inside, Ausstellungen in der Region Basel, May 2004, reproduced in color on p. 21
