
Lucia Tro Santafe
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Provenance
Parkin Gallery, with the original catalogue.
Eric Lister Collection.
Thence by descent to current owner.
Brooklands is one of Flight's best-known linocuts, depicting the famous motor-racing track near Weybridge in Surrey, which was the focus for hugely popular racing events in the 1920s and 1930s. Flight subscribed to the Futurist Filippo Marinetti's philosophy that "the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed." Flight celebrates the speed and dynamism of the modern racing car, using a myriad of curved lines, varying in thickness and solidity, to convey the feeling of velocity. The short bursts of colour on the bonnets and wheels, curved upward strokes on the embankment and the placing of the racers in close proximity heading out of the frame, evoke a sense of frenetic energy as they hurtle around the bend, whilst the corresponding curved lines in the sky are emblematic of the soundwaves being generated by the spectacle.