Composition Study for "The Street Pavers"
Umberto Boccioni
1914
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
4 9/16 × 3 1/2 in. (11.6 × 8.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Michael D. Dingman Foundation Gift, 1990
Accession Number
1990.86
Tags
Human Figures
About the Artist
Umberto Boccioni · 1882–1916
Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) was an Italian painter and sculptor who became the leading artist and principal theorist of the Futurist movement. Born in Reggio Calabria, he studied in Rome under the Divisionist painter Giacomo Balla and was deeply influenced by Post-Impressionism before encountering the ideas of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, whose 1909 Futurist Manifesto catalyzed Boccioni's artistic ...