Lot 2: AR MINO DELLE SITE (1914-1996) a) Volo signed and dated ‘Delle Site 32’ (lo

AR MINO DELLE SITE (1914-1996) a) Volo signed and dated ‘Delle Site 32’ (lower right) watercolour and pencil on paper 10.5 x 8cm (4 1/8 x 3 1/8in). Executed in 1932 b) Eliche signed and dated ‘Delle Site 32’ (lower left) watercolour and pencil on paper 10.3 x 7.8cm (4 1/16 x 3 1/16in). Executed in 1932 c) Aerofari signed and dated ‘Delle Site 32’ (lower right) watercolour and pencil on paper 10.1 x 7.3cm (4 x 2 7/8in). Executed in 1932 d) Aerofaro signed and dated ‘Delle Site 32’ (lower right) watercolour and pencil on paper 10.2 x 8.2cm (4 x 3 1/4in). Executed in 1932

Provenance The artist’s studio. Private collection, Rome (by descent from the above). Exhibited Rome, Galleria Bragaglia Fuori Commercio, Mino Delle Site. Maschere stati d’animo, December 1932. Lecce, Sala del Circolo Cittadino, Mostra Personale di Pittura Futurista Mino Delle Site, February 1933. Lecce, Museo Provinciale, Mino Delle Site, Aeropittura e oltre, dal 1930, 15 October - 3 December 1989. Rome, Associazione Culturale Athenaeum N.A.E., Retrospettiva di Mino Delle Site, 1997. Bari, Castello Svevo, Verso le Avanguardie, gli anni del Futurismo in Puglia 1909 - 1944, 20 June - 30 August 1998 (later travelled to Taranto). Warsaw, Wloski Instytut Kultury, Mino Delle Site, alle radici dell’Aeropittura 1931 - 1934, June - September 2001 (later travelled to Kracow). Salerno, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Percorsi d’arte dal collezionismo dei Ruffo all’evoluzione pittorica di Mino Delle Site, March - May 2005. Lecce, Museo Provinciale, Mino Delle Site, October - November 2006. Rome, Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi & Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Mino Delle Site, 23 November 2006 - 14 January 2007. Rome, Farnesina, Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Mino Delle Site, Futurismo tra Arte e Tecnologia nel Centenario, 19 - 25 October 2009. Rome, La Quadriennale, Mino Delle Site Centenario, October 2014. Literature C.L. Delle Site, Mino Delle Site, Perugia, 2006 (Volo illustrated p. 51, Eliche illustrated p. 52). C.L. Delle Site, Mino Delle Site, centenario, e-book, 2014 (all works illustrated). Mino Delle Site (left) and Prampolini (right) at the III Quadriennale in Rome, 1939. FOUR WORKS ON PAPER BY MINO DELLE SITE FROM THE ESTATE OF THE ARTIST

The authenticity of these works has kindly been confirmed by the Archivio Mino Delle Site.