LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

36.02 in. (91.50 cm.) (height) by 21.85 in. (55.50 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated 'C. Carrà 917’ (lower left)

Exhibited:

Milan, Galleria Chini, Mostra personale del pittore futurista Carlo Carrà, December 1917 - January 1918 (probably in the first state).Galleria L'Epoca, May - June 1918.Zurich, Kunsthaus, Italienische Maler, March – May 1927, no. 15.Sasso Marconi, La Casa dell’Arte, Carlo Carrà, Mostra del Centenario, 100 dipinti e 35 disegni dal 1900 al 1966, February – April 1981, no. 19 (illustrated).Milan, Palazzo Reale, Carrà, Mostra antologica, April - June 1987.Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, XIII Esposizione Quadriennale d’Arte, “Valori Plastici”, October 1998 – January 1999, no. 50, p. 312 (both first and final state illustrated p. 35; final state illustrated again p. 222).

Literature:

The artist's Archives: photo of the work in its first state (signed and dated upper left 'C. Carrà 1917')."L'Illustrazione medica italiana", 1921 (first state illustrated, titled 'Impressioni dell'ospedale neurologico "Villa del Seminario" a Ferrara').M. Broglio, ed., Valori Plastici, Anno III, no. 1, Rome, 1921 (first state illustrated, signed and dated upper left 'C. Carrà 919').A. Soffici, Carlo Carrà, Arte Moderna Italiana, vol. XI, Milan, 1928 (illustrated).G. Cerrina, "Carlo Carrà" in La Provincia di Bolzano, 26 November 1932.V. Costantini, Pittura italiana contemporanea, Milan, 1934, pp. 394 & 426 (illustrated p. 221).R. Huyge, Histoire de l’art contemporain, Paris, 1935.C. L. Ragghianti, "Carrà" in Critica d’arte, 1936.R. Longhi, Carlo Carrà, Arte Moderna Italiana, vol. XI, Milan, 1937 (illustrated pl. VII).M. Masciotta, "La pittura metafisica", in Letteratura, 1941.G. Pacchioni, Carlo Carrà, Milan, 1945 (illustrated pl. 11).J. Thrall Soby, Twentieth Century Italian Art, New York, 1949.L. Vitali, Preferenze, Milan, 1950.C. Zervos, Cahiers d’art I, Paris, 1950.R. Carrieri, Pittura e scultura d’avanguardia in Italia, Milan, 1950.U. Apollonio, Pittura Metafisica, Venezia, 1950 (first state illustrated).C. Cardazzo, Carrà, Venice, 1952.W. Schmalenbach, Grosse Meister Moderner Malerei, Lucerne, 1957.R. Modesti, Pittura italiana contemporanea, Milan, 1958.M. Valsecchi, La pittura metafisica, Milan, 1958.M. Valsecchi, Carrà, Milan, 1962.E. Cecchi, Carrá, in Exh. Cat, Carrà, Milan, 1962.S. Branzi, "Carlo Carrà", in L’osservatore, 1962.G. Ballo, La linea dell’arte italiana, Rome, 1964.M. Carrà, Carrà, Tutta l’opera pittorica, vol. I, 1900-1930, Milan, 1967, no. 3/17, p. 585 (illustrated p. 315).M. Carrà & P. Bigongiari, L’opera complete di Carrà, dal futurismo alla metafisica e al realismo mitico, 1910-1930, Milan, 1970, no. 72, p. 91 (illustrated pl. XXI).C. Giedion-Welcker, Schriften 1926-1971, Cologne, 1973, no. 38 (illustrated).C. Carrà, La mia vita, Rome, 1981, pp. 137 & 138.Exh. cat., Carlo Carrà, Rome, 1994, pp. 130, 131 & 163 (both first and final state illustrated).F. Rovati, Carrà tra futurismo e metafisica, Milan, 2011, n. 26, p. 122 (first state illustrated).

Provenance:

Private collection, Zurich, by whom acquired directly from the artist circa 1926, and thence by descent to the present owner.