SEVERO ANTONELLI (born 1907)

Untitled (Abstraction)

Details

SEVERO ANTONELLI (born 1907)
Untitled (Abstraction)
Gelatin silver print. circa 1931. Annotated N 3 Illustration by Severo Antonelli in ink on the reverse of the mount. Contained in the original overmat.
3.3/8 x 2in. (8.5 x 6.2cm.)

Provenance

Giovanni Lista;
Sotheby's New York, Italian Futurist Photographs, November 9, 1982, lot 5;
To the present owner.

Exhibited

Prima Biennale Internazionale d'Arte Fotografia, Rome, December 19 - January 20, 1933;
Muse d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981.

Lot Essay

Antonelli was born in Philadelphia and worked there as a pictorialist photographer until 1932, when he went to Rome, met Marinetti and became a member of the Futurist movement. After exhibiting his work in Italy, he returned to America in 1934 to continue with Futurism and in 1939 founded the Antonelli School of Photography in Philadelphia. His work is the collection of several American museums.