Early Italian Futurist Drawings:
Parole in Libertà (Words in Freedom)

Francesco Cangiullo (Italian, 1884–1977)
Università: Studenti in Lettere (University: Students in Letters), 1915
Gouache and ink on board, 13 7/8 x 17 3/8” (44.2 x 35.5 cm)
Note: This work was exhibited as “no. 35” in the exhibition Esposizione Futurista Internazionale, Winter Club, Torino (1922), and bears the identifying label at lower left.

Volt (pseudonym for Vincenzo Fani Ciotti) (Italian, 1888–1927)
Provincia: Caffè della Posta (Provincial Café), 1916
Gouache, colored pencils, and ink on paper, 23 1/2 x 17 1/4” (59 x 44 cm)

Francesco Cangiullo (Italian, 1884–1977)
Two studies for Le coriste (The Chorus Girls):
Left: Chorus Girls I or La Vedova allegra (The Merry Widow), Eva, 1914
Ink on graph paper (two joined sheets), 15 5/8 x 10 1/2” (39.5 x 27 cm)
Right: Chorus Girls II, c. 1915
Ink and pencil on graph paper (two joined sheets),
19 5/16 × 10 1/2” (49.1 × 26.7 cm)
Formerly Merrill C. Berman Collection;
now The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (Italian, 1876–1944)
Announcement: Parole in Libertà (Words in Freedom), preview of the forthcoming journal I Paroliberi Futuristi (Futurist Words): Consonanti, Vocali, Numeri (Consonants Vowels Numbers) (Milan, February 11, 1915)
Letterpress, 11 1/4 x 8 7/8” (28.6 x 22.5 cm), closed
Note: Francesco Cangiullo’s Le coriste is reproduced in the center spread and a drawing by Paolo Buzzi appears on the back.

Francesco Cangiullo (Italian, 1884–1977)
Book: Piedigrotta, 1916
Letterpress, 10 3/8 x 7 1/2” (26.3 x 19 cm)

Francesco Cangiullo (Italian, 1884–1977)
Book: Futurista caffeconcerto: alfabeto a sorpresa (Futurist café concert: a surprise alphabet), 1919
Lithograph, 9 5/8 x 6 3/4” (24.4 x 17.1 cm)

Left: Carlo Carrà (Italian, 1881–1966)
Graphic Rhythm with Airplane (Homage to Blériot), 1914
Pen and ink with graphite and collage on graph paper,
15 9/16 x 10 7/8” (39.5 x 27.7 cm)
Formerly Merrill C. Berman Collection;
now National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Right: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (Italian, 1876–1944)
Si = No (Yes = No), c. 1915
Ink on verso of letterhead (Palace Hotel, Bruxelles),
10 1/2 x 8 1/8” (26.5 x 20.5 cm)

Left: Paolo Buzzi (Italian, 1874–1956)
Un attimo della mia giornata a Palazzo Monforte
(A Moment of My Day at Palazzo Montforte), 1916
Ink on paper, 15 x 11” (38 x 28 cm), with adhered piece
7 1/2 x 2 1/8” (9 x 5.5 cm)
Right: Mario Carli (Italian, 1889–1935)
La stazione di Mestre è un inferno
(The train station in Mestre is a living hell), 1916
Ink, pencil, and colored pencil on verso of letterhead (Ufficio di Sanità Militare d’Intendenz Palmanova), 15 1/4 x 11 1/4” (39 x 29 cm),
with adhered piece 2 x 7 1/2” (5.5. x 9 cm)

Pasqualino Cangiullo (Italian, 1900–1975)
Una schiaffeggiata futurista (A Futurist Scuffle), 1916
Ink and pencil on graph paper, 8 5/16 × 10 9/16” (21.1 × 26.9 cm)
Formerly Merrill C. Berman Collection;
now The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Gino Cantarelli (Italian, 1889–1950)
Costruzione luce (Light Construction), c. 1919
Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper, 12 1/2 × 17 11/16” (31.7 × 45 cm)
Formerly Merrill C. Berman Collection;
now The Museum of Modern Art, New York

March 29, 2022