A certain amount of similarity in their way of representing landscape, especially urban views, appears in the compositions done in the 1930s by Renato Birolli and Sassu, as is evident from a comparison between works by Birolli like Il taxi rosso of 1932 and the painting presented here. It is necessary, however, to underline the permanence in Sassu’s work of a tie with the models of a typically Lombard tradition. By this point far away from Futurism, here he represents the automobile and the city with a new sensibility, more attentive to a candidly direct rendering of the real surrounding him than to a search for dynamism.