(Modena 1894–1956 Rome)
Materia Cosmica, 1929, signed Prampolini, oil on masonite, 81 x 100 cm, framed

Photo certificate signed by Alessandro Prampolini, December 1972 (with the stamp of Galleria Artecentro, Milan)

Provenance:
World House Gallery, New York (label on the reverse)
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, R. N. Ketterer, Stuttgart, no. 383 (label on the reverse)
Galleria Marlborough, Rome
Galleria Toninelli, Milan
Galleria Artecentro, Milan, no. 3843 (label on the reverse)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
World House Gallery, New York, 1957 Hartford (Connecticut), Salute to Italy, Wadsworth Atheneum, 21 April - 28 May 1961 (label on the reverse)
Galleria Toninelli, Milan

Literature:
Filiberto Menna, Enrico Prampolini, De Luca (ed.), Rome, 1967, p. 233, no.76 ill. no. 158

[…] this need for extroversion also informed the period that was most open to fantastical inspirations, the phase of ‘cosmic idealism’, in which Prampolini, under the spell of Surrealism, created a new universe of images, which prefigured the imminent conquest of cosmic space.
At that time, around 1930, the artist used the data and information afforded by science and technology and organised them like science fiction, creating a kind of “fantastical painting” that combined the love of adventure and the unknown with the urge to prefigure new worlds [and new dimensions] of a metaphysical and metapsychic nature.
F. Menna, Futurismo e Futurismi, Milan 1986