(Milan 1884 - Monte Ortigara 1917)
PROFILO DEL PADRE LUIGI, 1910
Etching. To the platemark 137 x 96 mm; the full sheet measuring 595 x 405 mm.
A fine impression from the edition of 50, made from the original plates owned by the artist's heirs, completed in 1984 and printed by Il Nuovo Torcoliere, Rome. All prints were numbered with Arabic numerals from 1/50 to 50/50 and bore the blind stamp of the heirs and the publisher.
Titled and numbered in pencil N.6 - Profilo del padre Luigi 11/50
The heir, as first born son, of the pharmaceutical industry bearing his name, Carlo Erba, after contrasts with his father, preferred to study Art and in 1908 he enrolled the Scuola Libera del Nudo at the Brera Academy, earning a living by himself, with no help from his rich family. In 1914 he was one of the founders of the group Nuove Tendenze, considered as the right wing of Futurism. A staunch interventionist, Carlo Erba together wit his futurist friends Marinetti, Boccioni, Funi, Sant'Elia, Russolo and Sironi, joined the Battaglione Lombardo Volontari Ciclisti Automobilisti. He died in 1917 during a war attack on Monte Ortigara.
