Vatican Museums

Produced by Carrà in 1940, Lot’s Daughters III is the third version of the same subject. The artist turned his hand to this theme for the first time in 1919 (MART, Rovereto), within the context of a general “return to order”, and realised a second version in 1925, which he subsequently destroyed and of which there remains only an engraving. Drawn from Genesis (19, 30-38), the episode refers to the story of the family of Lot, fleeing Sodom to avoid the fire that was destroying the city, and in particular the incestuous relationship between the father and his daughters to avoid the extinction of their stock, after Lot’s wife had been transformed into a pillar of salt. Carrà creates an image without iconographic attributes, outside time and extremely balanced, in which the evocative element prevails over the descriptive.