Auction 29 / Graphics & Books

tue 1 DECEMBER -  thu 3 DECEMBER 2020
Fortunato Depero (Fondo, 1892 - Rovereto, 1960) : Waiting for the polenta. - Auction Graphics & Books - Libreria Antiquaria Gonnelli - Casa d'Aste - Gonnelli Casa d'Aste
Lot 467

Fortunato Depero (Fondo, 1892 - Rovereto, 1960)

Waiting for the polenta.

1936-37 ca.
Pencil and charcoal on paper. mm 495x450. Signed in pencil at the bottom right "F. Depero". After the experience in New York (from the fall of 1928 1930) Depero is a new artist. In New York he saw and experienced everything that the futurists in Italy had imagined, and so there was nothing left to... imagine. Thus, he gradually distanced himself from futuristic participations and closed himself up in his Trentino, which, of course, often influenced his inspirations towards a more rustic declination. In this design of vernacular setting you can still see some futuristic styles, such as this layout for dynamic diagonals, but it is clear that we are on another level than the Depero of the 1920s. It is the preparatory study (quite autonomous as a finished drawing in itself) for a charcoal drawing of large sizes and of a more rectangular format in the horizontal dimension, published in his autobiography of 1940. Work archived in the section Drawings of the General Catalogue Reasoned of the Artist’s works on 15 October 2020.

Some small holes in the edges four corners of the sheet but overall excellent condition
Base price
EUR 4.800,00
sold : Registration