Drawings  

Salvatore Fiume gave great importance to drawing which he worked at constantly, from the age of eight until the last months of his life. In his drawings Fiume experimented with and developed the themes that he then transferred to and developed in his paintings, sculpture and architecture: from the island of statues to the models, from the bullfights to the hypotheses and the Japanese Poems. Moreover, drawing for him was a universe in which to experiment and create forms. This can be seen from entire cycles of drawings - for example the cycle dedicated to the theme Susanna and the old men - which do not appear elsewhere in his work.

 

City of statues
1959
ballpoint on paper
35x25 cm

 

Wrestling horses
1982
felt tip on African paper
70x100 cm

 

Gathering of Sabine women
1948
ink on paper
24x35 cm

Grouse
1965
ballpoint on paper
24x34 cm

 

Centaur
1972
felt tip on paper
17x25 cm

Horsegirls at the railings
1975
ballpoint on paper
39.5x30.5 cm

 

The women of the Anthropotaurus
1974
ink and ballpoint on paper
61x45.5 cm

 

Wrestling anthropotauri
1964
ink on paper
57x41.5 cm

 

Faun
1968
felt tip and ballpoint on cardboard 70x50 cm

Monumental bas-relief
1971
ink on paper
23.5x15.5 cm

Dionysian dance
1962
blue ballpoint on paper
28x22 cm

Imaginary atelier
1964
ink on paper
50x70 cm

 

Encounter in the atelier
1963
ink on paper
50x70 cm

The cock and his lover
1966
ink on paper
34x30 cm

Mythical seduction
1950
ballpoint on paper
50x70 cm

 

The bewitching arm-chair
1946
Indian ink
24x35 cm

Don Xijote
1954
ballpoint on paper
17.5x25 cm

  Bull and woman
1970
felt tip on African paper
70x50 cm
  Bull and woman
1972
felt tip on African paper
70x50 cm
  Embrace
1970
felt tip on African paper
70x50 cm
  Susanna and the old men
1971
pastel on cardboard
56x38 cm
  Susanna and the old men
1971
pastel on cardboard
56x38 cm
  Susanna and the old men
1971
pastel con cardboard
56x38 cm
  Susanna and the old men
1971
pastel on cardboard
56x38 cm
  Centaurs embracing each other
1963
pastel on cardboard
56.5x38.5
  Cock and woman
1965
felt tip on cardboard
56.5x38.5
  The surprise
1972
felt tip on cardboard
61x39 cm
 

Woman and cock
1963
felt tip on cardboard
56.5x38.5
cm

  Atelier
1961
felt tip on wall paper
60x50
cm
  Arena
1963
felt tip on African paper
70x50
cm