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Title:Young Woman Reading (Ines)
Artist:Umberto Boccioni (Italian, Reggio 1882–1916 Sorte)
Date:1909–10
Medium:Charcoal and crayon with white and brown chalks on paper
Dimensions:18 3/8 x 13 1/8 in. (46.7 x 33.3 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989
Object Number:1990.38.11
Inscription: Signed (lower right, in black crayon): U. Boccioni
the artist (until d. 1916); his sister, Amelia Raffaella Boccioni Callegari, Verona (1916–58; sold in 1958 to Winston); Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston, Birmingham, Mich. (1958–his d. 1966); Lydia Winston Malbin, Detroit and New York (1966–d. 1989; her bequest to MMA)
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Boccioni Drawings and Etchings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston," May 30–August 9, 1961, no. 136 (dated 1910).
Detroit Institute of Arts. "Boccioni Drawings and Etchings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston," October 18–December 19, 1961, no. 136.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Boccioni Drawings and Etchings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston," January 14–February 19, 1962, no. 136.
Detroit Institute of Arts. "Boccioni Drawings from the Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston Collection," April 26–May 28, 1967, no catalogue (checklist no. 113).
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Futurism and the International Avant-Garde," October 26, 1980–January 4, 1981, no. 19 (dated 1910, lent by The Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston Collection [Dr. and Mrs. Barnett Malbin, New York]).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Boccioni: A Retrospective," September 15, 1988–January 8, 1989, no. 45 (dated 1908–10, lent by Lydia Winston Malbin, New York).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Boccioni and Women," June 19–October 18, 1998, no catalogue.
Madrid. Fundación MAPFRE. "Del Divisionismo al Futurismo: El arte italiano hacia la modernidad," February 17–June 5, 2016, no. 51.
Teresa Fiori, ed. Archivi del divisionismo. Rome, 1968, vol. 2, p. 193, no. 2385, pl. 496.
Gianfranco Bruno. L'Opera completa di Boccioni. Milan, 1969, p. 98, no. 114, ill., calls it "Busto di donna leggente (Ritratto di giovane donna; Ines)".
Linda Shearer and Marianne W. Martin. Futurism: A Modern Focus. The Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston Collection. Dr. and Mrs. Barnett Malbin. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, 1973, p. 216, no. 176, ill., dates it 1910.
Guido Ballo. Boccioni, la vita e l'opera. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1964). Milan, 1982, p. 218, appendix no. 286, ill. n.p., calls it "Ritratto di giovane donna (Ines)" and dates it 1910.
Maurizio Calvesi and Ester Coen. Boccioni: L'opera completa. Milan, 1983, p. 321, no. 480, ill., call it "Ritratto di donna".
Maria Drudi Gambillo and Teresa Fiori, ed. Archivi del futurismo. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1958 and 1962). Rome, 1986, vol. 2, p. 255, no. 39, ill. p. 183, call it "Ines".
Ester Coen. Umberto Boccioni. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1988, pp. 83, 86, no. 45, ill. p. 85 (color).
Alberto Dambruoso in Maurizio Calvesi and Alberto Dambruoso. Umberto Boccioni: Catalogo Generale delle Opere. Turin, 2016, p. 311, no. 346, ill., calls it "Ritratto di donna che legge" and dates it 1910.
Umberto Boccioni (Italian, Reggio 1882–1916 Sorte)
1910
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