Sironi sets record as Italian buyers rally to Futurist past

“Fascism, charged with Idealistic values, is applauded by all of those who are legitimately able to call themselves Italian poets, novelists and painters. We are sure that in Mussolini we have the Man who will know how to value correctly the force of our Art dominating the world.”

Published in the autumn of 1922 soon after Mussolini swept to power, this enthusiastic proclamation …

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