The painting in the Masp Collection, Skyscrapers, stands as a relatively isolated incursion into painting as part of Menotti Del Picchia’s multifaceted activity as an artist. This work was probably informed by Cubism in all its most mitigated denotation and not by chance aloof to the canvas Terrace by De Fiori, of which there are two versions dated of the 1940s, one conserved at Masp. The interest for the incipient, though vertiginous verticalness of the city of São Paulo in that decade possibly rekindled, in the sensibility of the then recalcitrant cultural militant, a recollection of the futurist song of the metropolis.

— Unknown authorship, 1998

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