Sketches of Four Heads and a Child
Umberto Boccioni
1907
Medium
Etching on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 17.9 × 28.8 cm (7 1/16 × 11 3/8 in.); Sheet: 34 × 48.5 cm (13 7/16 × 19 1/8 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11096
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 ...