
Reclining Woman + Lines of Space
Giacomo Balla · 1911/13
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- 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.).
Literature
Published references
- 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.)
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