Estimate: € 25,000.00 - € 35,000.00
Starting bid: € 19,000.00
Starting bid: € 19,000.00
1929 - 1930 circa
Pencil, charcoal and tempera on paper
24 x 31,5 cm
Signed lower right
Work accompanied by certificate of authenticity issued by Archivio Unico per la Catalogazione delle Opere Futuriste, Rovereto curated by Maurizio Scudiero
By the end of the 1920s (from 1929), Crali's production had largely been oriented toward designs and paintings on the theme of flight, precisely because the Futurist Aeropittura manifesto had been published. And so the young Crali, who was nineteen years old in 1929, began to produce drawings and paintings of biplane aerobatics flying over cities. However, the artist certainly does not forget about 'earthly speed', about cars engaged in speed. This is the case with this dynamic final study for one of the most interesting paintings of the decade, made during the 1930s, which aims to show the conflicting forces of a car taking a curve at speed: the centrifugal force that pushes it outwards, and the centripetal force that the direction of the wheels wants to drive inwards. This is undoubtedly one of the happiest examples of simultaneity and dynamism in the work of the young Crali, to whose study he dedicated several drawings with different degrees of elaboration. But this is absolutely the final one, precisely because it is the only one in which the car is already in the bright red color of speed, as in the painting.
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Monza
Pencil, charcoal and tempera on paper
24 x 31,5 cm
Signed lower right
Work accompanied by certificate of authenticity issued by Archivio Unico per la Catalogazione delle Opere Futuriste, Rovereto curated by Maurizio Scudiero
By the end of the 1920s (from 1929), Crali's production had largely been oriented toward designs and paintings on the theme of flight, precisely because the Futurist Aeropittura manifesto had been published. And so the young Crali, who was nineteen years old in 1929, began to produce drawings and paintings of biplane aerobatics flying over cities. However, the artist certainly does not forget about 'earthly speed', about cars engaged in speed. This is the case with this dynamic final study for one of the most interesting paintings of the decade, made during the 1930s, which aims to show the conflicting forces of a car taking a curve at speed: the centrifugal force that pushes it outwards, and the centripetal force that the direction of the wheels wants to drive inwards. This is undoubtedly one of the happiest examples of simultaneity and dynamism in the work of the young Crali, to whose study he dedicated several drawings with different degrees of elaboration. But this is absolutely the final one, precisely because it is the only one in which the car is already in the bright red color of speed, as in the painting.
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Monza