Woman's Head

Prints and Drawings

1909

Umberto Boccioni
Italian, 1882-1916

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Umberto Boccioni
Title: Woman's Head
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.: 1909
Medium: Graphite, with touches of stumping and scraping on tan wove paper, with pen and black ink ruled lines
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Boccioni 909"
Dimensions: 38.2 × 39.1 cm (15 1/16 × 15 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Collection
Reference Number: 1967.244R

Maria Drudi Gambillo and Teresa Fiori, Archivi del Futurismo, 2nd ed. (Rome, 1962), pp. 188 and 256, fig. 58.
Guido Ballo, Boccioni: La Vita e l’Opera (Milan, 1964), p. 491, fig. 170.
“Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, April–June, 1967,” The Art Quarterly 30:3–4 (1967), pp. 276 and 280 (ill.), as Head of a Woman (Ines).
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 166–167 (ill.).
Maurizio Calvesi and Ester Coen, Boccioni (Milan, 1983), p. 297, no. 437 (ill.).
Martha Tedeschi, Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958–1983, exhibition cat. (Chicago, 1985), pp. 180–181, cat. 83 (ill.), as Head of a Woman (Ines).
Clint Brown and Cheryl McLean, Drawing from Life (Fort Worth, Tex., 1992), pp. 207 and 208, fig. 8.9.
Howard Smagula, Creative Drawing, 2nd ed. (London, 2001), pp. 238-239, fig. 11.25.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake,” April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 48 (ill.), as “Head of Ines.”
Urbana-Champaign, 3, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 23–May 14, 1972.
New York, Columbia University, “Modern Portraits: The Self & Others,” pp. 15 and 177, cat. 9 (ill.), as Ines; traveled only to Wildenstein and Company, New York, October 20–November 28, 1976.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Great Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years,” July 24–September 30, 1985, pp. 180–181, cat. 83 (ill.), as Head of a Woman (Ines); traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10–May 16, 1986.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper,” March 24-September 13, 2009, no cat.

Sold by Galleria Barbaroux, Milan, to L. Freddi (probably Luigi Freddi, born 1895), Rome, around 1926 [Gambillo and Fiori 1962]; L. Freddi, to at least 1964 [Ballo 1964]. Sold by La Medusa, Rome, to the Art Institute, 1967

Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email . Information about image downloads and licensing is available here.

Currently Off View

Status

Department

Artist

Title

Place

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.

Medium

Inscriptions

Dimensions

Credit Line

Reference Number

Explore Further

Suggested Terms

See all hours

Currently Off View

Date:

Artist:

About this artwork

Status

Department

Artist

Title

Place

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.

Medium

Inscriptions

Dimensions

Credit Line

Reference Number

Extended information about this artwork

Publication History

Exhibition History

Provenance

Share

Explore Further

Related artworks

Sign up for our enewsletter to receive updates.

Gallery actions

Image actions

Share