Study for Portrait of Ferrucio Busoni
1916 · Pen and ink on paper
6 x 5" (15.2 x 12.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Umberto Boccioni
1882
PaintingImpressionismPost-ImpressionismCubism
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None documented
42
Institutional Exhibitions
80
Works in Collection
109
Assets Indexed
2
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0
Publications Referenced
90%
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- • Impressionism
- • Post-Impressionism
- • Cubism
- • Art Nouveau
- • Abstract Art
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Sculptors' Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1986
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
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The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983–1984
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A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881�1981
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1982
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Umberto Boccioni was an Italian painter and sculptor who articulated Futurism's aesthetic of dynamic form and fragmented mass. His paintings decomposed solid objects into vectors of movement and energy, making visible the velocity and force of modern life. A principal theorist and practitioner of the movement, Boccioni's relatively brief career established visual strategies that influenced sculptors and painters across the twentieth century. His works are held in major public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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