Gastone Novelli

Galleria Levi, Milan

Galleria Rotta, Genoa

Galleria Pogliani, Genoa

Studio S. Andrea, Milan

Private Collection (acquired from the above circa 1975)

Christie’s Milan, 23 May 2006, lot 422 

Massimo de Carlo, Milan

Acquired from the above in 2018 by the present owner

Zeno Birolli, Novelli, Milano 1976, no. 315, p. 226, illustrated (titled Senza titolo and with incorrect dimensions)

Claude Simon, Le jardin des plantes, Paris 1997, p. 131 (titled Le cose da conservare)

Paola Bonani, Marco Rinaldi and Alessandra Tiddia, Gastone Novelli: Catalogo Generale, Tomo 1, Milan 2011, no. P/1963/44, p. 270, illustrated in color 

Antje Tennstedt, Annäherungen an die Vergangenheit bei Claude Simon und W.G. Sebald : am Beispiel von Le Jardin des plantes, Die Ausgewanderten und Austerlitz, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, p. 77 (titled Le cose da conservare)

Emilia Surmonte, Il Jardin des plantes, Rome 2024, p. 131 (titled Le cose da conservare)

Roma, Galleria Pogliani, Novelli, April 1963, no. 12

New York, David Zwirner, Roma/New York, 1953-1964, January - February 2023