Estimate: € 7,000.00 - € 9,000.00
Starting bid: € 6,500.00
Starting bid: € 6,500.00
1940
Pencil, charcoal and whitewash on paper
24,8 x 32,5 cm
Signed and dated lower right
Work accompanied by certificate of authenticity issued by Archivio Unico per la Catalogazione delle Opere Futuriste, Rovereto curated by Maurizio Scudiero
With the outbreak of the Second World War, in September 1939, and despite Italy's entry into the war on 10 June 1940, the thermometer of Aeropittura marked an increasingly high temperature. Already with Italy's participation in the war in Ethiopia in 1935, and then in Spain in 1936, Aeropittura had ceased to be a lyrical disfiguration of the thrill of flight, in which the airplane was the medium for visions from above towards the earth, and had instead become a documentary aero painting in which the aircraft was the subject of aerial hunting and bombing actions. This was also the case with the outbreak of the Second World War. So, this three-engine plane is here captured, succinctly, in full flight, i.e. in ascent, after perhaps dropping bombs on a railway line that we can barely glimpse, at an angle, passing under the plane's nacelle.
In short... this is the war airplane painting that Marinetti 'sings' in a final manifesto of 1939.
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Lecco
Pencil, charcoal and whitewash on paper
24,8 x 32,5 cm
Signed and dated lower right
Work accompanied by certificate of authenticity issued by Archivio Unico per la Catalogazione delle Opere Futuriste, Rovereto curated by Maurizio Scudiero
With the outbreak of the Second World War, in September 1939, and despite Italy's entry into the war on 10 June 1940, the thermometer of Aeropittura marked an increasingly high temperature. Already with Italy's participation in the war in Ethiopia in 1935, and then in Spain in 1936, Aeropittura had ceased to be a lyrical disfiguration of the thrill of flight, in which the airplane was the medium for visions from above towards the earth, and had instead become a documentary aero painting in which the aircraft was the subject of aerial hunting and bombing actions. This was also the case with the outbreak of the Second World War. So, this three-engine plane is here captured, succinctly, in full flight, i.e. in ascent, after perhaps dropping bombs on a railway line that we can barely glimpse, at an angle, passing under the plane's nacelle.
In short... this is the war airplane painting that Marinetti 'sings' in a final manifesto of 1939.
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Lecco