The Estorick Collection
Believe it or not, London has one of the world’s best collections of Italian Futurist art. Like all the best museums and galleries, the Estorick Collection started as one man’s obsession – American writer Eric Estorick discovered Futurism during his honeymoon in Switzerland, and soon became a major collector.
The Futurists were a bunch of artists who were excited by the potential of modern machinery and technology. (To their discredit, some of them were also excited by the apparently modernist appeal of Fascism.)
Some of the earliest Futurist art is brash, energetic and powerful. But my favourite works in the …read more
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