Carlo Carra * (Quargnento/Alessandria 1881- 1966 Milan) Paesaggio blu, 1937, signed and dated, oil on canvas, 52.7x 68.5 cm, framed Provenance: Galleria Centro Annunciata, Milan (label and stamp on the reverse) Farsetti Arte, Prato, 28 May 2005, lot 820 (certificate available) European private collection Literature: M. Carrà, Carrà tutta l’opera pittorica, L’Annunciata-La Conchiglia Ed., Milan 1968, vol. II, no. 14/37 “Carrà was a painter who was more tormented, torn and elaborate than spontaneous. He drew personal effects from slow and repeated elaboration. The characterise his painting of a rocky internal consistency, which is his own and which in still lifes reveals its essence made up of substantial and deep plasticity, of a closed, silent but elevated poeticism.” Dino Bonardi from “La Sera”, Milan, 13 December 1940