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Title:Composition Study for "The Street Pavers"
Artist:Umberto Boccioni (Italian, Reggio 1882–1916 Sorte)
Date:1914
Medium:Pen and brown ink on paper
Dimensions:4 9/16 × 3 1/2 in. (11.6 × 8.9 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Purchase, The Michael D. Dingman Foundation Gift, 1990
Object Number:1990.86
Inscription: Signed (lower right, in black ink): Boccioni
the artist (1914–probably d. 1916); probably his sister, Amelia Raffaella Boccioni Callegari, Verona (from 1916); Bruno Grossetti, Milan (by 1962–at least 1964); Paolo Marinotti, Milan (by 1969–at least 1973); E. Tavoni, Bologna; Casa dell'Arte di Sasso Marconi, Bologna; Giorgio Panelli, Monza (probably in 1988); [probably Philippe Daverio Gallery, New York, until 1989; sold by Daverio in 1989 to Mathes]; [Barbara Mathes Gallery, Inc., New York, 1989–90; sold to MMA]
New York. Philippe Daverio Gallery. "Futurism 1911–1918," November 10–December 17, 1988, no. 4 (as "The Pavers—Study").
New York. Barbara Mathes Gallery, Inc. "Italian Futurist Drawings," October 21–December 2, 1989, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Boccioni: The Lydia Winston Malbin Bequest," June 15, 1990–January 15, 1991, no catalogue.
Rome. Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. "On Dynamism: Works by Umberto Boccioni from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Civiche Raccolte d'Arte del Castello Sforzesco, Milano," December 14, 1999–March 20, 2000, no. 13 (as "Study for I selciatori [The Street Pavers]").
Raffaele De Grada. Boccioni, il mito del moderno. Milan, 1962, pp. 172–73, 344, no. 58, ill., calls it "I Selciatori" in the list of plates and "I selciatori (studio)" in the caption; locates it in the collection of Grossetti, Milan.
Teresa Fiori, ed. Archivi del divisionismo. Rome, 1968, vol. 2, p. 197, no. 2446, pl. 506, calls it "I Selciatori (studio)," dates it 1910, and locates it in a private collection, Milan.
Gianfranco Bruno. L'Opera completa di Boccioni. Milan, 1969, pp. 114–15, no. 178b, ill., locates it in the collection of Marinotti, Milan.
Zeno Birolli, ed. Umberto Boccioni: Gli scritti editi e inediti. Milan, 1971, p. 471, ill. p. 232 (detail), calls it "Studio per 'I selciatore'" and locates it in the collection of P. Marinotti, Milan.
Guido Ballo. Boccioni, la vita e l'opera. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1964). Milan, 1982, p. 228, appendix no. 579, ill. and pl. 238 (detail), lists it in the Grossetti collection, Milan [1964 ed.].
Maurizio Calvesi and Ester Coen. Boccioni: L'opera completa. Milan, 1983, pp. 511–12, no. 912, ill., locate 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. 263, no. 195, ill. p. 207, list it in a private collection, Milan [1962 ed.].
Lisa M. Messinger in "Recent Acquisitions. A Selection: 1989–1990." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 48 (Fall 1990), p. 66.
Luigi Tallarico. Boccioni dal Meridione all'Europa: Racconto critico. Ferrara, 1997, p. 63, ill. (detail).
Livia Velani inOn Dynamism: Works by Umberto Boccioni from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Civiche Raccolte d'Arte del Castello Sforzesco, Milano. Ed. Giovanna Bonasegale. Exh. cat., Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. Rome, 1999, p. 74, no. 13, ill. p. 77.
Alberto Dambruoso in Maurizio Calvesi and Alberto Dambruoso. Umberto Boccioni: Catalogo Generale delle Opere. Turin, 2016, p. 464, no. 762, ill. (detail).
Umberto Boccioni (Italian, Reggio 1882–1916 Sorte)
1909–10
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