Roberto Marcello Iras Baldessari *
(Innsbruck 1894–1965 Rome)
Composizione Futur-Cubista, c. 1915/16, monogrammed RMB, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, framed
Photo certificate:
Archivio unico per il catalogo delle Opere Futuriste di Roberto Marcello Baldessari, curated by Maurizio Scudiero, archive
no. B15–112, dated 10/05/2018
Provenance:
Collection Augusto Stivala, Pistoia
European Private Collection
This work, which is reflected in a few others already documented in the archive, is perhaps the most extreme point in Baldessari’s futurist-abstract research. Here, he resolves his vision into a sort of “landscape” of intertwining lines of force that hold colour “data” and which, in turn, refer to specific categories: blue is the sea, yellow and red a sky at sunset and so on, in a manner that also visually recalls Cubism.
This approach, here in one of its first incarnations, would later evolve towards more figurative solutions which, in 1917, would give rise to a truly futurist-cubist period with clear similarities to Picasso. It is significant that Baldessari was perhaps the only Italian Futurist who was already paying close attention to Picasso at that time.
Maurizio Scudiero
Specialist: Maria Cristina Corsini
Maria Cristina Corsini
+39-06-699 23 671
maria.corsini@dorotheum.it
26.11.2019 - 17:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 45,300.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 20,000.- to EUR 25,000.-
Roberto Marcello Iras Baldessari *
(Innsbruck 1894–1965 Rome)
Composizione Futur-Cubista, c. 1915/16, monogrammed RMB, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, framed
Photo certificate:
Archivio unico per il catalogo delle Opere Futuriste di Roberto Marcello Baldessari, curated by Maurizio Scudiero, archive
no. B15–112, dated 10/05/2018
Provenance:
Collection Augusto Stivala, Pistoia
European Private Collection
This work, which is reflected in a few others already documented in the archive, is perhaps the most extreme point in Baldessari’s futurist-abstract research. Here, he resolves his vision into a sort of “landscape” of intertwining lines of force that hold colour “data” and which, in turn, refer to specific categories: blue is the sea, yellow and red a sky at sunset and so on, in a manner that also visually recalls Cubism.
This approach, here in one of its first incarnations, would later evolve towards more figurative solutions which, in 1917, would give rise to a truly futurist-cubist period with clear similarities to Picasso. It is significant that Baldessari was perhaps the only Italian Futurist who was already paying close attention to Picasso at that time.
Maurizio Scudiero
Specialist: Maria Cristina Corsini
Maria Cristina Corsini
+39-06-699 23 671
maria.corsini@dorotheum.it
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| Auction: | Modern Art |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 26.11.2019 - 17:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 16.11. - 26.11.2019 |
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