Gianni Bertini was born in Pisa in 1922 and initially studied mathematics before fully dedicating himself to art. In connection with his exhibition in Florence in 1949, alongside well-known names such as Fontana, Afro, Poliakoff, and Mortensen, Bertini was influenced by the new trends from Paris. He moved there in 1952 and became part of the lyrical abstraction movement. The renowned critic Pierre Restany wrote the first monograph on Bertini as early as 1962. The painting in question, created in 1957, is typical of Bertini's lyrically abstract works. His paintings are represented in several institutions, including the Moderna Museet, Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. His art from the years 1953 to 1960 was exhibited in 2024 at the Venice Biennale. These works, with titles drawn from mythology, served as a means for Bertini to recreate a new humanism after the horrors of war.