"At the Paris Exhibition, the Soviet pavilion and the Italian Futurist section represented the cutting edge of artistic avant-garde. It featured the architectural concepts and theater decoration and set designs of Enrico Prampolini and Giacomo Balla, and the panels of Fortunato Depero, with their vivid colors, embroidered figures, and cloth superimposed on cloth, perfectly executed and of the finest taste, with a stylized composition that was schematic and sometimes caricatural. Some of his painted wooden puppets also attest to his inventiveness, with their summary volumes and search for curious and effective rhythms, often with happy results."
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Le Arti decorative Italiane a Parigi; in L'Italia alla Esposizione Internazionale di Arti decorative e industriali moderne, Parigi, 1925, p. 57; Citato in Gabriella Belli, La Casa del Mago: le Arti applicate nell'opera di Fortunato Depero 1920-1942, Catalogo Mostra, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Edizioni Charta, Milano-Firenze, 1992, p. 30. ISBN 88-86158-09-2
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Margherita Sarfatti
1880 – 1961
Margherita Sarfatti (née Grassini; 1880 – 1961) was a Jewish-born Italian journalist, art critic, patron, collector, socialite, and prominent propaganda adviser of the National Fascist Party. She was Benito Mussolini's biographer as well as one of his mistresses.
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