Mar 10, 2022 - Sale 2597

Sale 2597 - Lot 382

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
MINO DELLE SITE
Giuramento dell'atleta.

Color pencils on paper, 1937. 294x407 mm; 11 5/8x16 inches. Signed and numbered "XV" lower right recto. With a copy of certificate of authentication from the Archivo Mino Delle Site, Rome with the registration number P.N. 1937-P91.

Delle Site (1914-1996) was an Italian painter from Lecce, a city in Italy's southern Apulia region. He moved to Rome at age sixteen to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti, where he joined the nascent Aeropittura (Aeropainting) movement, an expression of Italian Futurism focusing on aerial landscapes and airplanes as subject matter.