Inscription: Signed and inscribed (verso, in graphite): En volant sur Reims"/ Etude/ GSeverini/ 2
the artist (1915–17; shipped in October 1916 to New York, valued at Fr 150; left on June 22, 1917 with Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (1917–d, 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)
Paris. Galerie Boutet de Monvel. "Gino Severini: Première exposition futuriste d'art plastique de la guerre et d'autres oeuvres antérieures," January 15–February 1, 1916, no. 27 (as "En volant sur Reims [étude]").
New York. 291. "Paintings, Drawings, Pastels by Gino Severini," March 6–17, 1917, no catalogue (checklist no. 16; the artist's handwritten list as drawing no. 2).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Twentieth Century Italian Art," June 28–September 18, 1949, unnumbered cat. (p. 134; dated 1915?, lent by the Estate of Alfred Stieglitz, New York).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "From the Alfred Stieglitz Collection: An Extended Loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 22–August 12, 1951, no catalogue (checklist no. E.L.51.703; loan extended to March 20, 1961).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Futurism," May 31–September 5, 1961, no. 119 (dated 1915?).
Detroit Institute of Arts. "Futurism," October 18–December 19, 1961, no. 119.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Futurism," January 14–February 19, 1962, no. 119.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection," September 9–November 12, 1967, no catalogue.
Venice. Palazzo Grassi. "Futurismo e Futurismi," May 4–October 12, 1986, unnumbered cat. (p. 234; dated ca. 1915).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Boccioni: The Lydia Winston Malbin Bequest," June 15, 1990–January 15, 1991, no catalogue.
New Haven. Yale University Art Gallery. "Severini futurista, 1912–1917," October 18, 1995–January 7, 1996, no. 25.
Fort Worth. Kimbell Art Museum. "Severini futurista, 1912–1917," February 11–April 7, 1996, no. 25.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe," October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012, no. 39.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "World War I and the Visual Arts," July 31, 2017–January 7, 2018 (MMA Bulletin, Fall 2017, fig. 18).
Joshua C. Taylor. Futurism. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York, 1961, pp. 114, 147, ill. p. 113.
Marianne W. Martin. Futurist Art and Theory, 1909–1915. Oxford, 1968, p. 198 n. 4, tentatively dates it 1915.
George Heard Hamilton. "The Alfred Stieglitz Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal 3 (1970), p. 382.
Joan M. Lukach. "Severini's 1917 Exhibition at Stieglitz's '291'." Burlington Magazine 113 (April 1971), pp. 200, 205.
Joan M. Lucach [sic]. "Severini's Writings and Paintings, 1916–1917, and His Exhibition in New Jork [sic] City." Critica d'arte 20 (November–December 1974), pp. 66, 76, 79 nn. 21, 22, fig 1.
Marianne W. Martin. "Carissimo Marinetti: Letters from Severini to the Futurist Chief." Art Journal 41 (Winter 1981), pp. 310–11.
Daniela Fonti. Gino Severini: Catalogo ragionato. Milan, 1988, p. 199, no. 238, ill., calls it "En volant sur Reims (studio)".
Anne Coffin Hanson. Severini futurista: 1912–1917. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, 1995, pp. 104–5, no. 25, ill.
Ester Coen. Illuminazioni. Avanguardie a confronto: Italia, Germania, Russia. Exh. cat., Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. Milan, 2009, pp. 401, 509, ill. p. 404.
Lisa Mintz Messinger inStieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, pp. 71, 73–74, 252–53, no. 39, ill. (color).
Jennifer Farrell. "World War I and the Visual Arts." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 75 (Fall 2017), p. 17, fig. 18 (color).
Managing Editor Michael Cirigliano takes a tour of World War I and the Visual Arts with Associate Curator Jennifer Farrell to discuss the wide range of artists and artistic approaches represented in the exhibition.
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