(Modena 1894–1956 Rome)
Individualità aeroplastica, 1932, signed E. Prampolini, label inscribed by the artist on the reverse, oil on board, 60 x 73 cm, framed

Provenance:
Christie’s, Rome, 10 December 1987, lot 160
European Private Collection
Galleria Fonte d’Abisso, Modena (label and stamp on the reverse)
Sotheby’s, London, 24 October 2005, lot 2
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Venice, XVIII Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, 1932
Modena, Prampolini. Verso i polimaterici, Galleria Fonte d’Abisso, 1989, exh. cat. no. 12 with ill.

“Between 1930 and 1936, Prampolini would create a series of landscapes and cosmic organisms in which the lessons of Arp and Mirò happily bear fruit”. In the works of those years the artist “is able to translate his symbolic and mythical intentions into images that are both completely invented and absolutely concrete; but they indicate significant stages not only in Italy (where until then the only one to push himself in a similar direction was Licini, who had independently discovered Mirò and the Surrealists) but within European art of the Thirties itself. These works rightly insert themselves into the process of immersion and organic liquefaction of the surrealist images which through Masson and Matta would emerge later in the experiences of Gorky and informal poetics.”
F. Menna, Enrico Prampolini, De Luca, Rome, 1967