(Innsbruck 1894–1965 Rome)
Riflessi su un paese (Romagna), c. 1917, signed R. M. Baldessari, oil on cardboard, 56 x 54.5 cm, framed, (MCC)

Photo certificate:
The work is registered in the Archivio Unico per il catalogo delle Opere futuriste di Roberto Marcello Baldessari, under the number B17–59, Rovereto 14/1/2008

Provenance:
N. Carozzi Collection, Lerici (label on the reverse)
Private Collection, Italy

Exhibited:
Rome, Continuita del Futurismo Nord-Sud, M.I.C.R.O. Arte, February–March 2009, curated by Maurizio Scudiero and Anna Maria Ruta, exh. cat. p. 81, with ill.
Agrigento, FUTURISMO, Fabbriche Chiaromontane, April–June 2009, exh. cat. p. 69 with ill.

In the spring of 1916, Baldessari sojourned in Lugo di Romagna at an especially vital moment in his personal and artistic experience. His memories of the landscapes in the Romagna region and their intense light became for Baldessari a recurring motif in his landscape painting, which is often based on a view from above emphasising the “verticality“ of houses, in contrast with the light’s lines of force illuminating them from above. In terms of composition and colour, the present painting is undoubtedly the most accomplished in this long series of studies.