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Fillia was the pseudonym of Luigi Colombo, a painter and writer born in Revello in 1904 who died in Turin in 1936. Trained in Turin’s artistic milieu, he participated in Futurism, contributing through theatre, poetry and periodicals as well as painting. His pictures combine geometric construction with imaginary spaces.
Cuneo’s civic museum holds Presenze umane / Nudità aeree, a single canvas painted on both sides, dated 1929–1930. Its restoration enabled the study and display of this double composition associated with aeropainting. Aeropittura, from the Alberto Della Ragione collection, uses tempera on cardboard measuring 46 by 33 centimetres; geometric forms, a ladder and a cloud create a mental space. Its documented appearance in Chiavari in 1931 rules out the previously proposed later date, according to the institutional catalogue.
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Piguet
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Oil on canvas
"Vase de fleurs"
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2020-07-01
Published result : 5000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 4000–6000
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