Gerardo Dottori (Perugia 1884 - 1977) "Ascending Forces" 1923 tempera on board 84x60 cm Signed and titled 1923 lower right Provenance Cav. Collection Tancredi Loreti, Perugia Galleria Giorgi, Florence Massimo Carpi Collection, Rome Bragaglia House of Art, Rome Private collection, Milan Exhibition "Prima esposizione nel Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo" Collegio delle arti di Orvieto, Orvieto, 11 September - 30 September 1923 (label on the reverse) "Fiamma" Exhibition Rome-83, Rome, 1930 (label on the reverse) "25 names of national and international fame" Galleria La Luna, Perugia, 4 - 14 January 1968 "Gerardo Dottori" Galleria d'Arte Pier della Francesca, Arezzo, 24 April - 12 May 1971 "Rassegna storica del Futurismo" Galleria Schettini, Milan, 15 - 28 June 1971, ill. in catalogue "Rassegna di pitture e documenti del Futurismo" Galleria d'Arte Pinacoteca, Rome, 21 October - 10 November 1971, ill. in catalogue "Mostra antologica Gerardo Dottori" Palazzo del Popolo, Todi, 21 March -18 April 1971, table 5 colour ill. in catalogue "Gerardo Dottori" Galleria della Trinità, Rome, 7 - 31 March 1972 "Gerardo Dottori" Galleria Giorgi, Florence, 11th November - 2nd December 1972, n. 15 ill. in catalogue "12th International Science Fiction Film Festival. Mostra antologica di Gerardo Dottori" Sala Comunale d'arte di Palazzo Costanzi, Trieste, 6 July - 28 July 1974, p. 67 colour ill. in catalogue "Homage to Dottori on his 90th Birthday" Galleria d'arte Il Caravaggio, Rome, 22 February - 30 March 1975, p. 37 colour ill. in catalogue and on cover in colours "Casa Balla e il Futurismo a Roma" Accademia di Francia, Rome, 1 October - 30 November 1989, p. 443 n. G/17 ill. in catalogue "Gerardo Dottori, works 1896-1975" Succursale Fiat, Pescara, 11 December 1993 - 11 January 1994, ill. in catalogue "Dottori opere dal 1905 al 1975" Galleria Edieuropa, Rome, 19 October - 26 November 1994, n. 10 colour ill. in catalogue "Gerardo Dottori" Rocca Paolina - CERP, Perugia, 7 December 1997 - 7 February 1998, p. 229 n. B/25, p 121 colour ill. in catalogue "Dottori Futurista aeropittore" Galleria d'arte Narciso, Turin, 23 May - 28 June 1997, p. 29 n. 11 colour ill. in catalogue "Dottori. Futurist aeropainter" Casa Italiana Zarilli Marimò, New York, 4 May- 31 May 1998, p. 19 n. 11 colour ill. in catalogue "Gerardo Dottori e i Futuristi umbri" Galleria Arte - Arte, Bologna, 1-31 October 2000, p. 23 colour ill. in catalogue "Futurism and its Legacy" Museo d'Arte Costantino Barbella, Chieti, 6 December 2002 - 15 January 2003 "Futurism" Media Sphere Comunication, Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, Taipei, 15 July - 11 October 2009, p. 248 colour ill. in catalogue "Futurism & Futurists in Florence" M.I.C.R.O., Florence, 15 April - 15 May 2011, p. 80 colour ill. in catalogue "Italian Futurism 1909-1944" Emma Espo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, 2 March - 10 June 2012, p. 154 colour ill. in catalogue "Dal Futurismo ai percorsi contemporanei" Naval Heritage Museum, Portomontenegro, 5 July - 15 August 2013, colour ill. in catalogue "Il Futuro sopravvenuto - Arte-azione, comunicazione e post-umano nel Futurismo" Ex Chiesa del Carmine, Taormina, 10 March - 14 June 2017, p. 114 colour ill. in catalogue Literature L. Strozzieri "Futurism and its Legacy" Sambuceto, Litografia Brandolini, 2002, p. 48 ill. in colours I. Bartsch and M. Scudiero "...Auch wir Maschinen, auch wir mechanisiert!... - ...Even we machines, even we mechanised..." Bielefeld, Kerber Werlag, 2002, p. 219 ill. in colours M. Duranti "Gerardo Dottori unpublished or rarely exhibited works" Associazione romana G. d'arte moderna, 2006, ill. in colours M. Duranti "Gerardo Dottori. Catalogo generale ragionato. Tomo Primo" Perugia, Edizione Fabbri Editore, 2006, Tomo Primo p. 129 pl. 50 ill. in colurs p. 346, Tomo Secondo p. 457, n. 116 ill.