Giovanni Battista Podestà (1895-1976) Red Devil's Head, circa 1950 Plaster, sawdust, glue, pigments, aluminium and wire on panel Signed lower left 60×48×12cm Provenance : - Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, 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 catalogue - Fribourg, Espace Niki de Saint-Phalle, "Tinguely et Podesta", 10 September 2003 - 18 April 2004, reproduced in the exhibition catalogue - Lausanne, Collection de l'Art Brut, "Giovanni Battista Podesta", 2003-2004 - Basel, Musée Jean Tinguely, "Podesta", 1 May - 22 August 2004 - Grignan, Espace d'Art François-Auguste Ducros, "Je collectionne", 19 May - 13 September 2009 - Paris, "Art Paris", Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, 2010 - Paris, la maison rouge / Berlin, Me collector room, "Tous cannibales", 12 February - 15 May 2011 - Beaufort-en-Anjou, Musée Joseph Denais, "Joseph et moi, un portrait croisé de collectionneurs", 9 July - 2 November 2011, reproduced in the exhibition catalogue - Paris, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, la maison rouge, "Le mur, collection Antoine de Galbert", 14 June - 21 September 2014, reproduced in the exhibition catalogue - Hauterives, Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval, "Elévations, hommage des collectionneurs Bruno Decharme et Antoine de Galbert à Joseph Ferdinand Cheval", 30 April - 30 August 2015, reproduced in the exhibition catalogue - Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, "Souvenirs de voyage. La collection d'Antoine de Galbert", 27 April - 28 July 2019, reproduced in the exhibition catalogue - Lyon, MAC, "Désordres, extraits de la collection Antoine de Galbert", 8 March - 7 July 2024, reproduced in the exhibition catalogue 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 colour on p.138 - Art Inside, Ausstellungen in der Region Basel, May 2004, reproduced in colour p. 21