Graphic Rhythm with Airplane (Homage to Blériot), 1914

Not on View

Medium

pen and ink with graphite and collage on graph paper

Dimensions

overall: 39.5 x 27.7 cm (15 9/16 x 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2004.62.1

Artists / Makers

Carlo Carrà (artist) Italian, 1881 - 1966

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Provenance

The artist's son, Massimo Carrà, Milan; Maître René-Jean Ullmann, Paris; private collection, Paris; (Rachel Adler Fine Art, New York) to Merrill C. Berman, New York, 1997; NGA purchase (via Ubu Gallery, New York), 2004.

Associated Names

Adler & Conkright Fine Art
Berman, Merrill C., Mr.
Carrà, Carlo
Carrá, Massimo
Seroussi, Natalie
Ubu Gallery
Ullmann, René-Jean

Exhibition History

1977: Carlo Carrà. Galleria civica d'arte moderna, Ferrara, 1977, no. 93.

1986: Futurismo & Futurismi. Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1986, p. 164-165.

1990: Art & Publicité 1890-1990. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1990-1991, repro. p. 197.

2004: Avant-Gardes: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection. Ubu Gallery, New York, 2004, p. 54-55.

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

2007: Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 March 2007 - 29 July 2007.

2014: From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800- 1925. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015.

Bibliography

1977: Russoli, Franco and Massimo Carrà. Carrà Disegni. Bologna, 1977: no. 102, repro. 161.

1978: Carrà, Massimo. Carlo Carrà, Tutti gli scritti. Milan, 1978: repro. 33.

2003: Fergonzi, Flavio. The Mattioli Collection: Masterpieces of the Italian Avant-garde. (Lewis Kachur entry on Carlo Carrà, "Interventionist Demonstration..."). Milan and New York, 2003: 210, fig. 8h.