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Title:Young Man on a Riverbank (recto); Study of a Wagnerian Scene (verso)
Artist:Umberto Boccioni (Italian, Reggio 1882–1916 Sorte)
Date:1902
Medium:Gouache, charcoal, and pastel on paper
Dimensions:11 3/4 × 8 5/8 in. (29.8 × 21.9 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989
Object Number:1990.38.6ab
Inscription: Signed (lower right): UB
the artist (1902–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. 1 (as "Young Man on the Bank of a River").
Detroit Institute of Arts. "Boccioni Drawings and Etchings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston," October 18–December 19, 1961, no. 1.
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. 1.
Detroit Institute of Arts. "Boccioni Drawings from the Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston Collection," April 26–May 28, 1967, no catalogue (checklist no. 1).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Boccioni: A Retrospective," September 15, 1988–January 8, 1989, no. 1 A and B (lent by Lydia Winston Malbin, New York).
Palazzo Reale, Milan. "Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916). Genio e Memoria," March 23–July 10, 2016, no. 3.
Joshua C. Taylor. Futurism. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York, 1961, ill. p. 22 (recto), calls it "Young Man in a Landscape".
Joshua C. Taylor. The Graphic Work of Umberto Boccioni. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York, 1961, unpaginated, no. 1 (recto), ill. and no. 1a (verso), ill., dates the verso ca. 1910.
Teresa Fiori, ed. Archivi del divisionismo. Rome, 1968, vol. 2, p. 182, no. 2205, pl. 463.
Gianfranco Bruno. L'Opera completa di Boccioni. Milan, 1969, p. 86, no. 1, ill. (recto).
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. 208, no. 112, ill. (recto), call the recto drawing "Young Man on the Bank of a River" and tentatively date it 1902; date the verso drawing about 1908.
Guido Ballo. Boccioni, la vita e l'opera. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1964). Milan, 1982, p. 213, appendix no. 123, ill., dates it 1908–9.
Maurizio Calvesi and Ester Coen. Boccioni: L'opera completa. Milan, 1983, p. 134, no. 5 (recto); [verso not listed].
Maria Drudi Gambillo and Teresa Fiori, ed. Archivi del futurismo. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1958 and 1962). Rome, 1986, vol. 2, p. 255, no. 53, ill. p. 186 (recto), call it "Figura che passeggia".
Ester Coen. Umberto Boccioni. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1988, pp. 3–5, no. 1A , ill. (color; recto), 1B (ill.; verso).
Paolo Bellini. Umberto Boccioni: Catalogo ragionato delle incisioni, degli ex libris, dei manifesti e delle illustrazioni. Exh. cat., Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ricci Oddi, Piacenza. Milan, 2004, p. 80, fig. 90 (recto).
Maurizio Calvesi in Maurizio Calvesi and Alberto Dambruoso. Umberto Boccioni: Catalogo Generale delle Opere. Turin, 2016, pp. 30–31, ill. (color; recto).
Alberto Dambruoso in Maurizio Calvesi and Alberto Dambruoso. Umberto Boccioni: Catalogo Generale delle Opere. Turin, 2016, p. 223, no. 1, ill. (recto); p. 534, no. 1079, ill. (verso).
Umberto Boccioni (Italian, Reggio 1882–1916 Sorte)
1909–10
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