Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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

Carrà, Carlo di, La Mia Vita (Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1943), p. 120.
Mastrolonardo, Enotrio, “Pittura Italiana contemporanea,” Scena Illustrata (October 1959), pp. 12-13 (ill.), as I cavalieri dell’Apocalisse.
Le Arti (January 1959), pp. 8-9.
Sotheby’s London, Catalogue of Important Impressionist and Modern Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture, sale cat. (May 4, 1960), pp. 12, 13 (ill.), lot. 43, as I cavaliri dell’Apocalisse.
Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, The World of Art in 1910 exh. cat. (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, as I cavalieri dell’Apocalisse, 1908.
Art Institute of Chicago, Calendar of the Art Institute of Chicago 59: 4 (September 1965), n.p. (ill.).
Carrà, Massimo, Carrà: Tutta l’Opera Pittorica, vol. 1 (Milan: Edizioni dell’Anunciata, 1967), pp. 141 (ill.), 580, cat. 2/08, as I Cavalieri Dell’Apocalisse, 1908
Pierre, José, Le Futurisme et le Dadaisme (Lausanne, 1967), pp. 15, 157, as Les Cavaliers de l’Apocalypse, 1908.
L’Opera completa di Carrà (Milan: Rizzoli, 1970), p. 87, cat. 9 (ill.), as I Cavalieri Dell’Apocalisse, 1908.
Grung, Sandra, Supplement to Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute, 1971), p. 15.
Shaw, Rue Winterbotham, The Horse as Motif, 1200 B.C.–1966 A.D. exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1975), pp. 40 (ill.), 41, cat. 61.
Carlo Carrà: con il patrocinio della regione emilia-romagna exh. cat. (Galleria civica d’arte moderna, 1977), n.p., as I cavalieri dell’Apocalisse.
Hirsh, Sharon Latchaw, “Carlo Carra’s ‘The Swimmers’,” Arts Magazine 53, no. 5 (January 1979), pp. 123, 124 (ill.), 125–27, fig. 4.
d’Harnoncourt, Anne, ed., Futurism and the International Avant-Garde exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Museum of Art, 1980), n.p., cat. 54 (ill.).
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, 1908.
Cavallo, Luigi, Carrà Oggi exh. cat. (Bologna: Edizioni Galleria Marescalchi, 1989), p. 36, as I cavalieri dell’Apocalisse.
Galleria Nazionale d’Artre Moderna e Contemporanea, Carlo Carra 1881–1966 exh. cat. (Rome: Electa, 1994), p. 7.
Chierici, Giorgio, ed., Carlo Carrà: Opere dal 1909 al 1960, Matite, Carboncini, Inchiostri (San Polo di Reggio Emilia, 1995), p. 54, as I cavalieri dell’Apocalisse.
Fagone, Vittorio, ed., Carlo Carrà: La matita e il pennello (Skira, 1996), pp. 57, 167, 342, as I Cavalieri dell’Apocalisse, 1908.
Carrà, Massimo, ed., Carte D’Artisti 26: Carlo Carrà, La Mia Vita (Milan: Abscondita, 2002), p. 238, as Cavalieri dell’Apocalisse.

Milan, Famiglia Artistica Milanese, Concorso Crudo & Lattuada, 1908, no. cat.
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, pp. 40 (ill.), 41, cat. 61.
Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Futurism and the International Avant-Garde, October 26, 1980–January 4, 1981, n.p., cat. 54 (ill.).
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 [this and the following according to letter from Centro Italiano d’Arte Annunciata, Oct. 15, 1975, in curatorial file]; sold through Centro Italiano d’Arte Annunciata, Milan to Luigi Silvera, Varese, 1948; sold through Centro Italiano d’Arte Annunciata, Milan and Sotheby’s, London, May 4, 1960, lot. 43 to Richard L. Feigen, Chicago and New York [letter from Sotheby’s, June 6, 1975, in curatorial file]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Harold X. Weinstein, Chicago, c. 1960 [letter from Richard Feigen, Apr. 12, 2001, in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1964.

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