Bankrupt

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• Author of the reproduced work: Balla Giacomo
• Caption: 25.Bankrupt. 1962?). Oil on wood, 19x26 3/4 inches. Private collection, Rome. This painting on wood could be a study for the larger canvas painting. Balla selects the ordinary door of a store as the subject for his painting and "crops" the image as in a photograph. The doors of the bankrupt store were sealed a court order. Children, oblivious of the human drama, awkwardly printed their names and scribbled numbers on it using blue chalk borroewd from a neighboring seamstress. Severini noted that "on a corner of the stone steps Balla has renderd spit magnificently"
• Year of the work: 1962
• Image typology: painting
• Instalment form
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