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Menotti Del Picchia

Skyscrapers, 1924

  • Author:
    Menotti Del Picchia
  • Bio:
    São Paulo, Brasil, 1892-1988
  • Title:
    Skyscrapers
  • Date:
    1924
  • Medium:
    Óleo sobre papelão
  • Dimensions:
    70,5 x 54 x 0,5 cm
  • Credit line:
    Doação do artista, 1952
  • Object type:
    Pintura
  • Inventory number:
    MASP.00349
  • Photography credits:
    João Musa

TEXTS



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

Source: Luiz Marques (org.), Catalogue of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo: MASP, 1998. (new edition, 2008).



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