Felix Del Marle (1889-1952)
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Felix Del Marle (1889-1952)

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Felix Del Marle (1889-1952)
Metro
watercolour and charcoal on paper
20 x 12¼in. (50.8 x 31.1cm.)
Executed circa 1912-13
Provenance
Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Special notice
VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer’s premium

Lot Essay

Felix Del Marle worked alongside the Italian Futurists, developing his own vocabulary of the new Futurist language that Marinetti, Boccioni, Severini, Balla and Carrà had invented. In Paris in 1912 he was close to Apollinaire, Max Jacob and the Cubists, and shared a studio with Gino Severini. His manifesto of Futurism of 1913 echoes Marinetti's iconoclastic declarations of 1909: 'Votre Moulin de la Galette disparaîtra fatalement dans une gare de Métro... Vous cherchez comme nous à dégageer toute la beauté neuve des constructions géometriques, des gares, des appareils électriques, des aa©eroplanes, de toute notre vie tourbillonnante d'acier de fièvre et de vitesse' (quoted in ex. cat., Futurismo e Futurismi, Venice, 1986, p. 66).

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