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WORKS ON PAPER FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AVANT-GARDES The Collection of a Scholar, Sold to Benefit Humanitarian Causes

Giacomo Balla (1871-1958)

Forze spaziali

Details

Giacomo Balla (1871-1958)
Forze spaziali
signed 'FUTURBALLA' (lower left)
oil on board
8 ¾ x 11 7/8 in. (22.2 x 30.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1918-1920

Provenance

Casa Balla, Rome.
Private collection, Italy, by whom acquired from the above in 1972.
Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1977.

Exhibited

Turin, Galleria Martano, Balla, trenta esempi, May 1974, no. 22 (illustrated p. 49).

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

The authenticity of this work has been verbally confirmed by Doctor Elena Gigli.

In a letter to Gian Enzo Sperone, Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco dates the present work around 1918. He describes Forze spaziali 'a work in which Balla introduces forms of speed (thus not "abstract") combined with forms of landscape, with the purpose of creating a project for a decorative object'. He continues, stating: 'Its colour palette, from coldest to warmer, makes this small work a synthesis of the artist's research, from the "iridescent interpenetration" to his studies on "speed + landscape"'.

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