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Umberto Boccioni 1882 – 1916

Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) was the leading artist of Italian Futurism. During his short life, he produced some of the movement’s iconic paintings and sculptures, capturing the color and dynamism of modern life in a style he theorized and defended in manifestos, books, and articles.
Born in Reggio Calabria, Boccioni attended technical college in Catania, Sicily, and began his artistic career as a talented draftsman. He moved to Rome in 1899 to train as an artist, first taking drawing lessons with Giovanni Maria Mataloni, an artist who specialized in publicity posters. Boccioni’s skill in creating compelling compositions in cartoons and posters stayed with him throughout his career. The commercial work also provided a small income to support his training as a fine artist.
Boccioni, like his fellow Futurists, was an ardent interventionist, campaigning for Italy’s entry into World War I on the side of the Allies. When Italy joined the war in 1915, he volunteered to fight. In August 1916, during cavalry exercises with his regiment, Boccioni fell from his horse. He died the next day at the age of thirty-three. Despite his premature death, he remains the best known artist of the Futurist movement.

Young Man on a Riverbank 1902	Car and Hunting Fox 1904	Cloister of S. Onofrio 1904	Bambina con pulcini 1904	Self-portrait 1905	Self-portrait 1905	The Signora Virginia 1905	Ritratto maschile 1905	Mother and Child 1906
The Mother 1906	Adriana Bisi Fabbri 1907	Boats in Sunlight 1907	María Sacchi Reading 1907	The Grand Canal in Venice 1907	Virgilio Brocchi 1907	L’Atleta 1907	Portrait of Dottor Tian 1907	Portrait of Advocate C.M. 1907
Agitate Crowd Surrounding a High Equestrian Monument 1908	April Evening 1908	Campagna 1908	Countryside with Trees 1908	Farmers at work. Risaiole 1908	Homage to Mother. Veneriamo la madre 1908	Landscape with Sunset 1908	Moorland. Brughiera 1908	Passing Train 1908
Pianist and Listener 1908	Seated woman 1908	Self-portrait 1908	Signora Massimino 1908	Trees. Alberi 1908	Autorittrato 1908	Paesaggio. Landscape 1908-1909	Moving Figure 1908-1909	Factory Foltzer 1909
Portrait of a Young Woman 1909	Riot in the Galleria 1909	The dream. Paolo and Francesca 1909	The Morning 1909	The Mother. La Madre. Nudo di spalle 1909	Twilight 1909	Factories At Porta Romana 1910	House under construction 1910	Mourning 1910
Study for 'The City Rises' 1910	Study of a Feminine Face 1910	The City Rises 1910	The City Rises 1910	Three Women 1910	Woman in the Garden. Donna in giardino 1910	The mother in front of the table with scissors 1910	Self-Portrait 1910	States of Mind II - Those Who Go 1910-1912
States of Mind II - Those Who Stay 1910-1912	Drawing After 'States of Mind, The Farewells' 1911	Modern Idol 1911	Nocturne 1911	Simultaneous Visions 1911	States Of Mind (Study), Those Who Stay 1911	States of Mind I, The Farewells 1911	States of Mind II, Those Who Go 1911	States of Mind III, Those Who Stay 1911
States of Mind, The Farewells 1911	States of Mind, Those Who Go 1911	The City Rises 1911	The Laugh. La Risata 1911	The Riot 1911	The Street Enters the House 1911	The Strengths of a Street 1911	Portrait of a Woman 1911	Abstract Dimensions 1912
Elasticity 1912	Figure 1912	Horizontal Volumes 1912	Materia 1912	Study for sculpture 'Empty and full abstracts of a head' 1912	The antigraceful. L'antigrazioso 1912	Woman in a Café, Compenetra- tions of Lights and Planes 1912	Testa + Luce + Ambiente 1912	Studio Per I 'Volumi Orizzontali' (La Madre) 1912
Antigraceful 1913	Development of a Bottle in Space 1913	Dimensional shapes of a horse 1913	Dynamic Decomposition 1913	Dynamism of a Cyclist 1913	Dynamism of a Human Body 1913	Dynamism of a man's head 1913	Dynamism of a Soccer Player 1913	Dynamism of a Soccer Player 1913
Dynamism of racing horse 1913	Dynamism of the human body, Boxer 1913	Glass and Syphon 1913	Nude, complementary model of form-color 1913	Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913	Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913	Studio per foot-baller 1913	Dynamism of a Woman's Head 1914	Plastic Dynamism, Horse+House 1914
The Drinker, study 1914	The Drinker 1914	The Street Pavers 1914	Under the Pergola at Naples 1914	Interior with Two Female Figures 1915	Plastic synthesis - seated person 1915	Silvia 1915	Simultaneous Nude 1915	The Charge of the Lancers 1915
A Futurist Evening in Milan 1916	Carlo Carrá 1916	Carlo Carrá 1916	Dynamism of a Human Body 1916	Dynamism of a soccer player 1916	Ferruccio Busoni 1916	Horse+Rider +Houses 1916	Interior with Two Female Figures 1916	Kneeling Allegorical Figure 1916
Landscape, mountains 1916	Landscape of Lake Maggiore 1916	Signora Cragnolini Fanna 1916	Still Life, Watermelon 1916	Study from Pontormo 1916	The City Rises 1916	The Mother 1916	The Reaper 1916	Dynamism of the Human Body 1913