Roberto Marcello Iras Baldessari Lot n° 9

Roberto Marcello Iras Baldessari (1894 - 1965) STILL LIFE (VASE OF FLOWERS) oil on canvas, 52x34 cm initials on the back: label Cadario Gallery, Milan executed in about 1915-1916 The work is accompanied by authentication from the Archivio Unico per il Catalogo delle Opere Futuriste by Roberto Marcello Baldessari and is filed in the paintings section of the Catalogo Generale Ragionato delle Opere dell'Artista under number B15 - 121 Provenance Cadario Gallery, Milan Private collection It belongs to the long cycle of experiments on "dynamism and simultaneity" borrowed from the study of Boccioni's work. It will gradually be this synthesis, which became more and more extreme and led back to elementary forms, that later became the "frame" of the return to Futurist figuration and the definition of his personal style, that is, that dynamic figurative with geometrized components that down here is approaching a certain recognizability, namely that of the vase and flowers. (Maurizio Scudiero)