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Title:Three Horses Tended by Men; Stone Pavement (recto); Horses and Figures in a Landscape (verso)
Artist:Umberto Boccioni (Italian, Reggio 1882–1916 Sorte)
Date:1910
Medium:Pen and brush and black ink on paper
Dimensions:4 1/2 x 6 1/8 in. (11.4 x 15.6 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989
Object Number:1990.38.16ab
Inscription: Signed (lower right, on verso, in black ink): Boccioni [underlined]
the artist (1910–d. 1916); his sister, Amelia Raffaella Boccioni Callegari, Verona (1916–56; sold in 1956 to Winston); Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston, Birmingham, Mich. (1956–his d. 1966); Lydia Winston Malbin, Detroit and New York (1966–d. 1989; her bequest to MMA)
Art Institute of Chicago. "Boccioni: An Exhibition of Drawings and Prints from the Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston Collection," March 14–April 27, 1958, no. 51 (dated ca. 1909–10; verso title as "Three Horses and Figures in Landscape").
Milan. Palazzo Reale. "Arte Italiana del XX Secolo da Collezioni Americane," April 30–June 26, 1960, no. 22 (as "Tre cavalli e uomini sul selciato," ca. 1909–10, lent by Sig. e Sig.ra Harry Lewis Winston, Birmingham, Michigan).
Rome. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna. "Arte Italiana del XX Secolo da Collezioni Americane," July 16–September 18, 1960, no. 22.
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. 158 [recto only exhibited].
Detroit Institute of Arts. "Boccioni Drawings and Etchings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston," October 18–December 19, 1961, no. 158.
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. 158.
Detroit Institute of Arts. "Boccioni Drawings from the Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston Collection," April 26–May 28, 1967, no catalogue (checklist no. 130).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Boccioni: A Retrospective," September 15, 1988–January 8, 1989, no. 51D and E (lent by Lydia Winston Malbin, New York) [recto and verso exhibited].
Joshua C. Taylor. The Graphic Work of Umberto Boccioni. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York, 1961, unpaginated, nos. 158 (recto), 158a (verso), ill.
Raffaele De Grada. Boccioni, il mito del moderno. Milan, 1962, pp. 172, 343, no. 55, ill. n.p. (recto).
Lydia K. Winston and Harry L. Winston. "Le Futurisme." Aujourd'hui 6 (February 1962), ill. p. 4 (recto), call it "Trois chevaux tirés par des hommes sur des pavés".
Teresa Fiori, ed. Archivi del divisionismo. Rome, 1968, vol. 2, p. 196, no. 2426, pl. 502 (recto), calls it "Tre cavalli e uomini sul selciato" or "Cavalli".
Gianfranco Bruno. L'Opera completa di Boccioni. Milan, 1969, p. 98, under no. 116, ill. (recto and verso).
Zeno Birolli, ed. Umberto Boccioni: Gli scritti editi e inediti. Milan, 1971, p. 471, ill. p. 287 (recto), calls it "Studio per 'Giganti e pigmei'".
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. 218, no. 189.
Piero Quaglino et al. Boccioni e il suo tempo. Exh. cat., Palazzo Reale. Milan, 1973, p. 75, no. 40, ill. (recto), call it "Tre cavalli sul selciato".
Guido Ballo. Boccioni, la vita e l'opera. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1964). Milan, 1982, pp. 219–20, appendix nos. 321 (verso), 347 (recto), ill. n.p. (recto and verso), calls the recto "Tre cavalli sul selciato" and the verso "Cavalli e figure".
Maurizio Calvesi and Ester Coen. Boccioni: L'opera completa. Milan, 1983, p. 372, nos. 667 (verso), 668 (recto), ill. (recto and verso), call the recto "Cavalli sul selciato" and the verso "Cavalli e figure".
Maria Drudi Gambillo and Teresa Fiori, ed. Archivi del futurismo. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1958 and 1962). Rome, 1986, vol. 1, p. 416; vol. 2, p. 263, no. 198, ill. p. 208 (recto), vol. 1, call the recto "Uomini e cavalli"; vol. 2, call it "Cavalli" (recto), "Cavallo" (verso).
Ester Coen. Umberto Boccioni. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1988, pp. 98–99, 104, no. 51D and E, ill. p. 100 (recto and verso).
Flavio Fergonzi. "Catalogue." The Mattioli Collection: Masterpieces of the Italian Avant-garde. Milan, 2003, pp. 146, 152 n. 30, fig. 3c (verso), calls the verso "Cavalli e figure (Horses and Figures)" and locates it in a private collection (formerly the Harry Winston Collection).
Alberto Dambruoso in Maurizio Calvesi and Alberto Dambruoso. Umberto Boccioni: Catalogo Generale delle Opere. Turin, 2016, p. 415, no. 593, ill. (verso), no. 594, ill. (recto), calls the recto "Cavalli sul selciato" and the verso "Cavalli e figure".
Umberto Boccioni (Italian, Reggio 1882–1916 Sorte)
1912
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