Study for "The Story of a Seamstress": Sewing Machine

Inscription: Signed (lower right, in graphite): U Boccioni

the artist (1908–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)

Detroit Institute of Arts. "Boccioni Drawings from the Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston Collection," April 26–May 28, 1967, no catalogue (checklist no. 28).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Boccioni: A Retrospective," September 15, 1988–January 8, 1989, no. 22.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Boccioni and Women," June 19–October 18, 1998, no catalogue.

Joshua C. Taylor. The Graphic Work of Umberto Boccioni. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York, 1961, unpaginated, no. 35, ill., calls it "Sewing Machine: Study for 'The Story of a Seamstress'".

Teresa Fiori, ed. Archivi del divisionismo. Rome, 1968, vol. 2, p. 185, no. 2262, pl. 472.

Gianfranco Bruno. L'Opera completa di Boccioni. Milan, 1969, p. 90, under no. 40, ill.

Guido Ballo. Boccioni, la vita e l'opera. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1964). Milan, 1982, p. 211, appendix no. 73, ill. n.p., calls it "Macchina per cucire (Sewing Machine)".

Maurizio Calvesi and Ester Coen. Boccioni: L'opera completa. Milan, 1983, p. 241, no. 312, ill., call it "Macchina da cucire".

Guido Ballo. Le origini romagnole di Boccioni e la scultura-omaggio di Arnaldo Pomodoro. Milan, 1984, p. 116, no. 27, ill. p. 46, calls it "Macchina per cucire" and locates it in a private collection.

Maria Drudi Gambillo and Teresa Fiori, ed. Archivi del futurismo. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1958 and 1962). Rome, 1986, vol. 2, p. 258, no. 107, ill. p. 198.

Ester Coen. Umberto Boccioni. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1988, pp. 44, 46, no. 22, ill. p. 47.

Aurora Scotti in Boccioni 1912 Materia. Exh. cat., Galleria dello Scudo, Verona. Milan, 1991, ill. p. 127.

Alberto Dambruoso in Maurizio Calvesi and Alberto Dambruoso. Umberto Boccioni: Catalogo Generale delle Opere. Turin, 2016, p. 307, no. 325, ill., calls it "Macchina da cucire (Studio per Romanzo di una cucitrice)".