Stepping Stone c. 1940

Edward DiGennero made this drawing called Stepping Stone, we don't know exactly when, or what it's made from, but it looks like pencil on paper. I love that this piece looks like a photograph of a sculpture that never existed. What would it be like to come across this object in real life? The drawing is so flat, with so little tone, that you can almost see the tooth of the paper beneath the drawing. I'm really interested in the relationship between the horse and the stone, with the horse as this archetypal figure, and the stone as this very raw, geometric, modern shape. There's something really compelling about the way DiGennero has combined these two images together. It reminds me of some of Giorgio de Chirico's works, that same sense of enigmatic compression, and the way he used mundane objects to create unsettling and mysterious images.