Estimate: € 8,000.00 - € 12,000.00
1941
Watercolor on paper
16 x 24,7 cm
Signed and dated lower right
Work accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Archivio Unico per la Catalogazione delle Opere Futuriste, Roverero curated by Maurizio Scudiero
Albinio Siviero, whom Marinetti renamed Verossì, originally from Verona, is the least known of the trio of Veronese aeropainters to which he belonged together with Ambrosi and Di Bosso. His best moment was in the late 1930s and early 1940s, when he produced a series of spectacular paintings, often of war actions in flight. The present watercolour is a preparatory study (but a completed work in itself) for an evocative painting made later in 1942 and titled ¿Bombardiere a tuffo e caccia vittorioso¿ (which I exhibited and published in 1990 in the exhibition ¿Futurismo Veneto¿, in Padua: cat. no. 175 on p. 174), in which the same biplane is engaged in various stunts in which (as in the watercolour) we can see the synopsis of the biplane, that is, its previous positions in space during its evolutions. It is a kind of painting à la Bragaglia, which, as in the photos of the famous futurist photographer, essentially shows the ¿movement¿ of the biplane, step by step. Therefore a very interesting work and still very futurist for its time.
PROVENANCE:
Private collection
Watercolor on paper
16 x 24,7 cm
Signed and dated lower right
Work accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Archivio Unico per la Catalogazione delle Opere Futuriste, Roverero curated by Maurizio Scudiero
Albinio Siviero, whom Marinetti renamed Verossì, originally from Verona, is the least known of the trio of Veronese aeropainters to which he belonged together with Ambrosi and Di Bosso. His best moment was in the late 1930s and early 1940s, when he produced a series of spectacular paintings, often of war actions in flight. The present watercolour is a preparatory study (but a completed work in itself) for an evocative painting made later in 1942 and titled ¿Bombardiere a tuffo e caccia vittorioso¿ (which I exhibited and published in 1990 in the exhibition ¿Futurismo Veneto¿, in Padua: cat. no. 175 on p. 174), in which the same biplane is engaged in various stunts in which (as in the watercolour) we can see the synopsis of the biplane, that is, its previous positions in space during its evolutions. It is a kind of painting à la Bragaglia, which, as in the photos of the famous futurist photographer, essentially shows the ¿movement¿ of the biplane, step by step. Therefore a very interesting work and still very futurist for its time.
PROVENANCE:
Private collection