Signature and year lower left. Title at the back and artist's stamp. Tllio Crali Archive - Maurizio Scudiero, Rovereto, authenticity certificate.
This 'Controsole' is truly a sunny Crali and quite special, showing us a girl who is rowing towards the sea early in the morning. What makes us think so? Simply the fact that at the time Crali was in Gorizia, not far from the sea (Grado), and the sun, which rises from the east, is precisely in the right position for those in the Adriatic. Crali offers us here a proof of beautiful painting, with this vaguely pointillist brushstroke, but which lends itself well to the rendering of this luminous 'diffusion' of the sun in the probably still hazy morning sky. The girl is rendered in a tapered form, as Crali had done with 'Ostacolista', from 1930, and then also with 'Aerodancer', from 1931. It is not the aeropainter Crali, but it is nonetheless an evocative painting of a young futurist who , it should be remembered, in 1932 he was only 22 years old.