(Fondo/Trient 1892–1960 Rovereto)
Strappo di Vento, 1948, signed, dated and titled „Cavalier tre gambe“ on the reverse, china ink and oil on cardboard, 70 x 62.7 cm, framed

This work is registered in the Archivio Unico per il Catalogo delle Opere Futuriste di Fortunato Depero, Rovereto and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity issued by Maurizio Scudiero

Provenance:
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Rovereto, 88^ma Mostra Depero, Pittura e Arte Applicata, Sala Filarmonica, 11 August – 11 September 1951, exh. cat. no. 9, titled „Strappo di Vento“

Depero produced 'Colpo di vento', a beautiful painting in violet tones, during his second American sojourn from 1947 to 1949. He donated the work to William Hillman, President Truman's secretary. Depero was a guest at Hillman’s country cottage in Marry Hall, Connecticut for over a year, from April 1948 to September 1949. This subject, namely the "blow of wind" that dishevelled his clothes, was replicated by Depero several times, as early as 1948 (this painting) and then in 1949 and again until 1952 (now at the Depero Museum). It is a work that recalls one of the main themes of Futurism, 'simultaneity', here made explicit in the multiplication of legs that renders the sense of movement.

Maurizio Scudiero