FORTUNATO DEPERO ^©  

(Fondo, 1892 - Rovereto, 1960)

pencil, ink and diluted ink on paper

cm. 33x18,5

signed lower right in red ink "F. Depero"

work archived in the drawings section of the catalogue raisonné of the Artist edited by M. Scudiero with relative repertoire number

"In 1947, Depero tried his hand at the American card again, and in the autumn he left for New York. However, the climate was no longer that of the late 1920s. Italy had just emerged from the war and in New York there was no air for Futurism, which for many smelled of Fascism. (..) Thus he met and frequented the surrealists who had fled Europe (especially France) at the outbreak of the war. Then, (..) he reconsidered all these new suggestions which also produced in him visions, let's say surreal, like this drawing which shows the "solidification" of a scream. Depero, then, once he returned to Italy, took up many of these drawings again, like this one which became an oil painting in 1951, today kept at the Mart in Rovereto."
Prof. Maurizio Scudiero