Hanging (Italy), 1925–28

Rectangular hanging showing an abstracted figure of a man in profile. Border of long overlapping rectangles. Cut and stitched from wool felt in a wide range of brilliant colors, brown, black and gray. Signature “Fillia” in lower right corner in black thread stem stitch. In lower left corner “S.I.R.E.” in yellow stem stitch.

Patchwork hanging by the Italian Futurist artist Luigi Colombo, who adopted the name Fillìa in the mid-1920s.

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