From 1920 onwards, Gino Severini follows his engagement in drawing, creating sketches for human figures or still-lifes which show suggestions and ideas already ripening during his stay in Paris. Other subjects such as doves, fruits, musical instruments merge in an inexhaustible series of solutions revealing that feature of supreme elegance and harmony present in his contemporary paintings, to which many works on paper are linked.
Artist
He was born in Cortona in 1883 and in 1899 he moved to Rome where he frequented Boccioni and Balla, becoming interested in divisionism. Moving to Paris in 1906, Gino Severini joined Modigliani, Dufy, Utrillo, Braque, Picasso, Gris and Jacob. In 1910 he was one of the signatories of the 1st Manifesto of Futurist Painting and later of the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting.