Giacomo Balla

Benedetta Marinetti, Rome (wife of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, a gift from the artist in 1914)
Mrs. Lydia Winston Malbin (acquired from the above in 1958; her sale: Sotheby's, New York, 16th May 1990, lot 11)
Purchased at the above sale by the late owner

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Futurism: A Modern Focus, The Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston Collection (Dr. and Mrs. Barnett Malbin), 1973, no. 16, illustrated in the catalogue (titled as Goldfish)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Futurism and The International Avant-Garde, 1980 - 1981, no. 10, illustrated in the catalogue
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, The Futurist Imagination, 1983, no. 86a, illustrated in the catalogue
Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, no. 145, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, no. 161, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection (exhibition catalogue), Berlin, 1999, illustrated p. 395

The board is stable, affixed to the mount at all four corner. There are minor loses to the board at all four corners and some further small along the edges. There are scattered pin holes primarily to the right quadrant of the composition. There is an approximately 9cm crease running across the upper right corner and some further smaller creases primarily to right part of the composition. Overall this work is in good condition.
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