Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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1908

Carlo Carrà
Italian, 1881-1966

On View: Modern Art, Gallery 245

Artist: Carlo Carrà
Title: Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Origin: Italy
Date: 1908
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, l.r.: "C. Carra 1908"
Dimensions: 14 3/16 × 37 in. (36 × 94 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold X. Weinstein
Reference Number: 1964.1218

Mastrolonardo, Enotrio, “Pittura italiana contemporanea,” Scena Illustrata (October 1959), pp. 12-13 (ill.).
“Una ignota opera prefuturista di Carlo Carra,” Le Arti (January 1959): 8-9.
Sotheby’s London, Catalogue of Important Impressionist and Modern Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture, sale cat. (May 4, 1960), opp. p. 12 (ill.), no. 43.
Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, The World of Art in 1910 (New Orleans, 1960).
Taylor, Joshua C., Futurism exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1961), pp. 20 (ill.), 141, cat. 67.
Ballo, Guido, La Linea dell’Arte Italiana (Rome, 1964), vol. 1, p. 58.
Art Institute of Chicago, Calendar of the Art Institute of Chicago 59: 4 (September 1965), n.p. (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Bulletin 59, no. 4 (September 1965).Pierre, José, Le Futurisme et le Dadaisme (Lausanne, 1966), pp. 15, 157.
Carrà, Massimo, Carrà: Tutta l’Opera Pittorica (Milan, 1967), vol. 1, pp. 141 (ill.), 580, cat. 2/08, as I Cavalieri Dell’Apocalisse.
L’Opera completa di Carrà (Milan: Rizzoli, 1970), p. 87, cat. 9 (ill.), as I Cavalieri Dell’Apocalisse.
Carlo Carrà: con il patrocinio della regione emilia-romagna exh. cat. (Galleria civica d’arte moderna, 1977), n.p., as I cavalieri dell’Apocalisse.
Speyer, A. James and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 35, cat. 1C10.
Palazzo reale di Milano, Carrà exh. cat. (Milan: Mazzotta, 1987), pp. 10 (ill.), 16, as Cavalieri dell’Apocalisse.
Galleria Nazionale d’Artre Moderna e Contemporanea, Carlo Carra 1881–1966 (Rome, 1994), p. 7

New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, The World of Art in 1910, November 15-December 31, 1960, n.p.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Futurism, May 31–September 5, 1961, p. 20 (ill.), cat. 61; traveled to Detroit, Institute of Arts, October 18–December 19, 1961; Los Angeles County Museum, January 14–February 19, 1962.
Chicago, Arts Club, The Horse as Motif, 1200 B.C.-1966 A.D., January 15– February 22, 1975, p. 40 (ill.), cat. 61.
Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Futurism and the International Avant-Garde, October 26, 1980–January 4, 1981, cat. 54.
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Artre Moderna e Contemporanea, Carlo Carra 1881–1966, November 25, 1994–February 26, 1995, p. 7.

Gino Bassi, Varese, by 1948 [according to letter from Centro Italiano d’Arte Annunciata, 1975]; through Centro Italiano d’Arte Annunciata, Milan, 1948; sold to Suigi Silvera, Varese, 1948. Sotheby’s, London, May 4, 1960, lot. 43 [London 1960 sale cat. and letter from Centro Italiano d’Arte Annunciata]; sold to Richard L. Feigen, Chicago and New York, by 1960 [letter from Richard Feigen in curatorial file and New Orleans 1960 exh. cat.]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Harold X. Weinstein, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1964.

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