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Gouache on board, framed. Featuring a portrait of a woman. Signed and attributed to Enrico Prampolini (Italian, 1894-1956) on the lower right corner. 56 x 47 cm (22.0 x 18.5 inches). Frame size: 74 x 64 cm (29.1 x 25.2 inches) Enrico Prampolini was an Italian Futurist painter, sculptor and scenographer. After studying with Dullio Cambellotti at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, he became a leading member of the Futurist Movement as a painter, scenographer and architect. He had close contacts with the representatives of the European avant-garde art, with the Section d'Or, Dadaism, the Bauhaus, De Stijl, the Abstraction-Création group, with Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky and Jean Cocteau. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate