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Study for "The Street Pavers": Man Laying Paving Stones

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Study for "The Street Pavers": Man Laying Paving Stones

Umberto Boccioni

1914

Medium

Ink on paper

Tags

Dimensions

5 7/8 × 8 1/4 in. (15 × 20.9 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989

Classification

Drawings

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Rights

Public Domain

About Umberto Boccioni

1882–1916 • Kingdom of Italy

One of the founding theorists and practitioners of Italian Futurism. His sculpture 'Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio' (Unique Forms of Continuity in Space) remains one of the icons of the early 20th century avant-garde.

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