Avant Garde Italian Futurist; Interior with Butterfly, 1928 Oil on Canvas

Name: Avant Garde Italian Futurist; Interior with Butterfly, 1928 Oil on Canvas
Brand: Antique
SKU: SA1086745
Availability: SoldOut

1900 - 1920

Sold by Skippings Fine Arts

Description

To think that this work of art, is almost is almost a hundred years old! Created by the cutting edge avant garde artist Antonio Fornari in 1928, it still feels stupendously modern, as well as very incredibly poetic.

Set designer, painter, writer and art critic Fornari joined the Roman futurist group at a very young age. At the beginning of the 1920s he exhibited in numerous group exhibitions set up by the Futurist Artistic Unions, with Balla, Prampolini, Marchi, Paladini and Pannaggi, and notably at the Futurist Exhibition at the Winter Club in Turin and at the first Futurist Exhibition in Macerata (May-June 1922); then at that of Italian art at the Teatro Modernissimo in Bologna. In 1924 he was with the Futurists at the International Ausstellung neuer Theatertechnik at the Konzerthaus in Vienna. He then went to Paris, where he carried out research on "book-objects" and, in 1926, produced for Gualtieri di San Lazzaro a collection of poems by contemporary authors with original tempera illustrations. In Italy he regularly visited the Casa d'Arte Bragaglia, where he exhibited his drawings and paintings, and established very close relationships with Paladini and Depero. In 1927, with Umberto Barbaro, Paolo Flores, Dino Terra and Vinicio Paladini, he founded the Movimento Immaginista (Imagist Movement) in Rome.

It seems that the movement's origins were Fornari's tempera paintings and drawings, which Paladini defined in a conference as "fantastic dream cities".

Our oil on canvas from this period may be described as a fantastic dream interior. Measuring 73 x 60 cm and signed at the lower right, it is presented in a modernist box frame. The overall size is 76 x 63 cm.

(Information on the artist from the biography of Antonio Fornari in Il Dizionario del futurismo, edited by Ezio Godoli - Vallecchi 2001)

Physical Dimensions

Height

73cm (28.74")

Width

60cm (23.62")

Depth

1cm (0.39")

Declaration

Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1920s.

Reference Numbers

Sellingantiques Reference

SA1086745

Dealers Notes

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Description

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Set designer, painter, writer and art critic Fornari joined the Roman futurist group at a very young age.

Skippings Fine Arts

At the beginning of the 1920s he exhibited in numerous group exhibitions set up by the Futurist Artistic Unions, with Balla, Prampolini, Marchi, Paladini and Pannaggi, and notably at the Futurist Exhibition at the Winter Club in Turin and at the first Futurist Exhibition in Macerata (May-June 1922); then at that of Italian art at the Teatro Modernissimo in Bologna. In 1924 he was with the Futurists at the International Ausstellung neuer Theatertechnik at the Konzerthaus in Vienna. He then went to Paris, where he carried out research on "book-objects" and, in 1926, produced for Gualtieri di San Lazzaro a collection of poems by contemporary authors with original tempera illustrations. In Italy he regularly visited the Casa d'Arte Bragaglia, where he exhibited his drawings and paintings, and established very close relationships with Paladini and Depero. In 1927, with Umberto Barbaro, Paolo Flores, Dino Terra and Vinicio Paladini, he founded the Movimento Immaginista (Imagist Movement) in Rome.

fig 1. Avant Garde Italian Futurist; Interior with Butterfly, 1928 oil on canvas — fig 1. Avant Garde Italian Futurist; Interior with Butterfly, 1928 Oil on Canvas

It seems that the movement's origins were Fornari's tempera paintings and drawings, which Paladini defined in a conference as "fantastic dream cities".

Our oil on canvas from this period may be described as a fantastic dream interior. Measuring 73 x 60 cm and signed at the lower right, it is presented in a modernist box frame. The overall size is 76 x 63 cm.

(Information on the artist from the biography of Antonio Fornari in Il Dizionario del futurismo, edited by Ezio Godoli - Vallecchi 2001)