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Reclining Woman + Lines of Space

A work made of collage composed of colored pencils, with traces of graphite, on off-white wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper.

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  • A work made of collage composed of colored pencils, with traces of graphite, on off-white wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper.

Date:

1911/13

Artist:

Giacomo Balla
Italian, 1871–1958

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Giacomo Balla

Title

Reclining Woman + Lines of Space

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality)

Date

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

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