Reclining Woman + Lines of Space

Prints and Drawings

1911/13

Giacomo Balla
Italian, 1871–1958

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giacomo Balla
Title: Reclining Woman + Lines of Space
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1911–1913
Medium: Collage composed of colored pencils, with traces of graphite, on off-white wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed with insignia recto, lower left, in blue and green gouache: "BALLA / FUTURISTA"; inscribed, lower left corner of image, in brush and green ink over brush and black ink: "BALLA FUTURISTA"; at lower right corner of image, in brush and green wash: "DONNA CORICATA + LINEE DI SPAZIO"; inscribed verso, upper right, in graphite (by Dorothy Braude Edinburg): "Purchased from Rose Freid" [sic]
Dimensions: 32 × 42 cm (12 5/8 × 16 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2012.73

Maria Drudi Gambillo and Teresa Fiori, eds. Archivi del Futurismo 2 (Rome, 1962), p. 169, no. 269, ill. p. 130.
Giovanni Lista, Balla (Modena, 1982), pp. 310 and 311, no. 651 (ill.), as Paesaggio + donna coricata.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago, 2006), pp. 14, 145, and 157, cat. 110 (ill.)

Wellesley, Mass., Wellesley College Museum, “One Century: Wellesley Families Collect. An Exhibition Celebrating the Centennial of Wellesley College,” April 15–May 30, 1978, cat. 60, cat. by Ann Gabhart, Judith Hoos Fox, and Elisabeth Thresher Scharlack.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 14, 145, and 157, cat. 110 (ill.).

Sold by the Rose Fried Gallery, New York, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA., Jan. 3, 1962; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.

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