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Lot Essay
The present lot comes originally from the prestigious collection of Futurist photography assembled by Giovanni Lista and sold at auction in 1982. Lista’s books on Futurist photography continue to serve as the leading studies on this area of photography. Later, this print entered the celebrated Nancy Richardson collection that came to auction in 2007.
Baldi was a self-taught photographer who met the leader of the Italian Futurist movement, Filippl Tommaso Marinetti, in 1930. Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto advocated the destruction of previous art forms to allow for new modes of expression and he was eager to bring new, young voices, such as Baldi’s, into his group. Baldi experimented with abstraction, photomontage and photograms. Furthermore, it is Baldi who is often credited with being the first official Futurist to create photograms.
While surviving prints of Baldi’s abstractions are scant, another print of this image is in the collection of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles. This print was exhibited in the 1932-1933 Biennale Internazionale d’Arte Fotografia in Rome.
Baldi was a self-taught photographer who met the leader of the Italian Futurist movement, Filippl Tommaso Marinetti, in 1930. Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto advocated the destruction of previous art forms to allow for new modes of expression and he was eager to bring new, young voices, such as Baldi’s, into his group. Baldi experimented with abstraction, photomontage and photograms. Furthermore, it is Baldi who is often credited with being the first official Futurist to create photograms.
While surviving prints of Baldi’s abstractions are scant, another print of this image is in the collection of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles. This print was exhibited in the 1932-1933 Biennale Internazionale d’Arte Fotografia in Rome.