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Tulio Crali
Study for the opera - The Forces of the Curve - Cars in Motion cm. 71 x 36 1930

1930

$53,445.99
£40,061.45
€45,000
CA$73,907.78
A$80,466.73
CHF 42,966.67
MX$971,359.40
NOK 540,167.88
SEK 502,418.98
DKK 342,850.65

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1930 Car, Racing Car, Futurism, Red Study of the work exhibited at the MART Museum in Rovereto The work has more than 70 years of experience. For export, documents from the Italian Fine Arts Association are required; it will take about 30-40 days to obtain and ship them. THE FORCES OF THE CURVE 1930, mixed media (pencil, tempera, and oil) on paper mounted on cardboard - 36 x 70.5 cm Signed and dated lower left: "Crali 30"; lower right: stamp of the Crali studio at Via Carlo del Prete 57/33 in Turin. By the late 1920s (from 1929), Crali's production had become decidedly oriented largely toward projects and paintings on the theme of flight, precisely because the manifesto of Futurist Aeropainting had been published. And so the young Crali, who was nineteen in 1929, began making drawings and paintings of biplanes acrobatically flying over cities. However, the artist had certainly not forgotten the "terrestrial speed," of speeding cars. Such is the case with this dynamic final study for one of his most interesting paintings of the decade, created in 1930, which aims to show the contrasting forces of a car speeding around a curve: the centrifugal force that pushes it outward, and the centripetal force that the direction of the wheels instead wants to push inward. This is undoubtedly one of the most successful examples of simultaneity and dynamism in the work of the young Crali, to whose study he dedicated various drawings and colored sketches with varying degrees of elaboration (some of which can be seen in "Crali and Futurism," edited by Marino De Grassi, Edizioni della Laguna, Monfalcone, 2019: p. 75). But this is absolutely the final one, precisely because it is the only one in which the car is already at the height of speed, and in chromaticism as it appears in the final painting. Mario Becchis was an abstract artist of the 1950s, and the historic director of the La Bussola gallery, where he succeeded Luigi Carluccio. Archived work "Single archive for the cataloging of Futurist works," edited by Maurizio Scudiero
  • Creator:
    Tulio Crali (1910 - 2000, Italian)
  • Creation Year:
    1930
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 25.2 in (64 cm)Width: 36.62 in (93 cm)Depth: 5.91 in (15 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    A study board, almost 100 years old, cut not perfectly straight but in excellent condition.
  • Gallery Location:
    Torino, IT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU537317263142

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