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ANTIQUE #SA1086745

Avant Garde Italian Futurist; Interior With Butterfly, 1928 Oil On Canvas

Status: This item has been sold
Sold by: Skippings Fine Arts

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 temp...
Antique SA1086745 shown on this page was made in 1920. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was created:
1920
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Skippings Fine Arts
Modern French & Continental Pictures selected by a former French auction house expert
Norfolk
United Kingdom
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STATUS
THIS ITEM HAS BEEN SOLD