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Carlo Erba, born in Milan in 1884, chose painting after abandoning university studies. He attended the life class at Brera and moved within Milanese artistic circles that included Carrà, Boccioni and Russolo. His landscapes explored divided brushwork before addressing changes on the urban outskirts. In 1914 he participated in Nuove Tendenze, a group close to Futurist experiments.
Le prime case della città, an oil on canvas of 1911 held by the Il Divisionismo gallery in Tortona, belongs to this concern with the edges of the modern city. It was exhibited at Milan’s Permanente. A draughtsman and printmaker, Erba also produced etchings, aquatints and drypoints, whose plates survive in his archive. Having enlisted during the First World War, he died at Ortigara in 1917.
This profile brings together identity references for Carlo Erba and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
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Charcoal on paper
Notturno, 1908
Kohle auf Papier
Catalogue period : 2018-06-20
Published result : 1458 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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