Artist Monograph

Gastone Novelli, Italian

Italian, 1925–1968

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Etching	10	90.9%
Oil Painting	1	9.1%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	10	90.9%
Painting & Sculpture	1	9.1%

Classification Types

Illustrated Book — 9
Painting — 1
Print — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	7	70%
Medium (30–100 cm)	2	20%
Monumental (> 3 m)	1	10%

Range: 9.2 cm → 351.1 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1964	1
1966	1
1968	1
1973	8

Italian Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 11 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Plate 12 from l'Avanguardia Internazionale, Volume 4/l'Avant-Garde Internationale, Volume 4/The International Avant-Garde, Volume 4 Illustrated Book Acc. 803.1963.12	1962	Etching and aquatint	plate: 5 13/16 × 4 7/16" (14.8 × 11.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Peter H. Deitsch
Double page plate (folios 7 verso and 8) from VIAGGIO IN GRECIA Illustrated Book Acc. 185.1973.1	1966	Etching and aquatint, printed in black	irreg. composition 10 9/16 x 15 7/8" (26.8 x 40.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Schwartz
First Plate… Print Acc. 557.1966	(1966)	Etching and aquatint	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	International Graphic Arts Society Fund
Plate (folio 10) from VIAGGIO IN GRECIA Illustrated Book Acc. 185.1973.2	1966	Etching and aquatint, printed in black	plate 8 1/16 x 5 7/8" (20.5 x 14.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Schwartz
Plate (folio 12) from VIAGGIO IN GRECIA Illustrated Book Acc. 185.1973.3	1966	Etching, printed in black	plate 8 1/16 x 5 7/8" (20.5 x 14.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Schwartz
Plate (folio 13 verso) from VIAGGIO IN GRECIA Illustrated Book Acc. 185.1973.4	1966	Etching and aquatint, printed in black	plate 3 5/8 x 3" (9.2 x 7.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Schwartz
Plate (folio 14) from VIAGGIO IN GRECIA Illustrated Book Acc. 185.1973.5	1966	Etching, printed in black	plate 8 1/16 x 5 7/8" (20.5 x 14.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Schwartz
Plate (folio 18) from VIAGGIO IN GRECIA Illustrated Book Acc. 185.1973.6	1966	Etching and aquatint, printed in black	plate 8 1/16 x 5 7/8" (20.5 x 14.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Schwartz
Plate (page 21) from L'albero poeta Illustrated Book Acc. 93.1968.3	1966. (Print executed 1965).	Etching from an illustrated book with ten prints	plate: 12 × 7 11/16" (30.5 × 19.5 cm); sheet: 16 1/8 × 9 13/16" (41 × 25 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Viaggio in Grecia Illustrated Book Acc. 185.1973.1-6	(1966)	Illustrated book with six etchings (four with aquatint),and four line block reproductions after pen and ink drawings	page: 10 5/8 x 8 1/4" (27 x 21 cm); prints: various dimensions. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Schwartz
Cienfuegos Painting Acc. 112.1973	1968	Oil, oil with pumice, ink, charcoal, and pencil on canvas	12' 6 1/4" x 6' 7 1/8" (351.1 x 201.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Sra. Giovanola Ripandelli