Carlo Carrà, The Daughters of Lot, lithograph, 65x46 cm, 1961

Le Figlie di Loth (The Daughters of Loth) is a lithograph on paper by Carlo Carrà, the print run has 125 copies and comes from his famous painting of the same title. It is an enigmatic painting and a far cry from the traditional representation of the biblical subject and scene.

The work in question is considered an important transition from Metaphysical Art to Magical Realism in the 1920s and Carrà's return of attention to the classical Italian tradition, a period that has been referred to as a 'return to order'. The subjects are essential, synthesised in an image penetrated by an atmosphere full of enigmatic and above all timeless suspension.

The figures and landscape take up models from the painting of the old masters of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, dear to Carrà and his poetics of the return to order. The lithograph is hand-signed in pencil at lower right and numbered 106/125 at lower left.The publisher is Il Bisonte of Florence.