(Perugia 1884–1977) Rondini in volo, 1932, signed and dated Dottori X, oil on wooden panel, 109 x 40 cm, framed, (PP)

Photo certificate: Archivi Gerardo Dottori, Massimo Duranti, Perugia, 26.02.2013, no. 1422

Exhibition: Rome, Ambientazioni futuriste, Galleria Edieuropa, 22 November 2009 – 13 February 2010, exh. cat. no page numbers (curated by Massimo Duranti and Francesca Duranti)

Literature: M. Duranti, Pranzo futurista, Abitare con Arte, no. 12, June 1993, Milan pp. 4–9;
M. Duranti, Gerardo Dottori, Catalogo generale ragionato, Effe Fabrizio Fabbri Editore, Perugia 2006, no. 279, p. 501 with ill.

Dottori executed this painting together with ‘Flying Airplanes’, also 1932, in connection with the Dining Room of Casa Cimino, which includes a chandelier and appliques that he designed. Taken together, these elements constitute a truly Futurist ambience. In the early 1930s, the painter from Perugia fully developed his Aeropainting style, depicting landscapes, particularly the lake landscape of the Umbria region, with audacious perspectives, surmounted by a feast of airplanes and their trails, with overlapping bright cones of light linking the earth and the sky.