Name: SEVERO ANTONELLI (1907–1995)
Brand: Futurist Abstraction, c. 1931
Price: 4500.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

SEVERO ANTONELLI (1907–1995)
Futurist Abstraction, c. 1931
gelatin silver print, mounted on paper
signed and annotated in ink and pencil (mount, verso)
image: 3³⁄₈ x 2¹⁄₂ in. (8.6 x 6.4 cm.)
mount: 13¹⁄₄ x 11 in. (33.7 x 27.9 cm.)

Italian Futurist Photographs: Property from the Collection of Giovannni Lista, Sotheby's, New York, November 9, 1982, lot 5;
Christie's, New York, April 8, 1988, lot 227;
Sotheby's, New York, October 16, 2004, lot 117;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibition Catalogue, Photographie Futuriste Italienne, 1911-1939, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, 1981, pl. 9.

Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Photographie Futuriste Italienne, 1911-1939, October 1981 - January 1982.

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Both lots 1 and 51 by Severo Antonelli come originally from the prestigious collection of Futurist photography assembled by Giovanni Lista and sold at auction in 1982. Lista’s books on Futurist photography continue to serve as the leading studies on this area of photography.

Antonelli was born in Italy, though raised in Philadelphia. His photographic career started with Pictorialist nudes, though by 1931 he had become interested in exploring abstract photography. In 1932, Antonelli met the founding member of the Futurist movement, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, in Rome and immediately joined and began exhibiting with the group.

Surviving prints by the artist are extremely rare with less than five having ever appeared at auction.