Inscription
lower right in blue ink: ARognoni / Futurista; upper left in black ink: Avvenuta nel CARSO - [preparazione?] d'artigliere; upper left in red ink: settembre 1917; upper center in red and blue ink: Futurista di Rognoni; upper left in red ink: Conquista di q[uota] 146 Carso; upper center in black ink: Lirica parolibera; upper right in black ink: [preparazione?] d'artigliere nel CARSO / -[in fase di guerra?]-Tav.[ola] I.; across center in black ink: IL FANTE IN TRINCEA SE NE FREGA (the infantryman in the trench does not give a damn); lower right in black ink: giù le teste per dio! {heads down, by god!); lower center in black ink: cOlpi di cannOne (cannon shots); other inscriptions recorded in Commentary field.
Provenance
(sale, Sotheby's, Monte Carlo, 17 June 1990, no. 1192); Elaine Lustig Cohen, New York; (Ubu Gallery, New York); purchased 2008 by NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1922
- Esposizione d'arte italiana futurista. Teatro Modernissimo, Bologna, 1922, no. 90 (as Avvanzata sul Caaarso).
- 1983
- Futurismo pavese. Castello Visconteo, Pavia, 1983, p. 23 (no repro.)(Rossana Bossaglia and Susanna Zatti).
- 1984
- Le livre futuriste de la libération du mot au poème tactile. L'Institut Culturel Italien and Centre Beaubourg (presented at the Hotel Galliffet), Paris, 1984, no. 102 (reprod. in color)(Giovanni Lista).
- 2014
- From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800- 1925, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015.
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