Entitled Midday, the 3ft by 2ft 3ins (90 x 70cm) oil on canvas, right, depicts a couple of farmhouses in the shade of an enormous tree. By 1920, Carrà was already moving away from futurism, and exploring new forms while staying in Tuscany and Liguria. In 1927 he explored landscape painting to a greater degree, seeking a new form of
enchanted, more contemplative naturalism, one of the high points of which is this work, dated to the same year. The painting sold for €400,000 (£242,400).
Carrà goes boom in May…
ITALY: A record price for a painting by Carlo Carrà was established in Italy back on May 21 in a sale of contemporary art held by Christie’s in Milan.
