Collection: Umberto Boccioni

Umberto Boccioni (19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Despite his short life, his approach to the dynamism of form and the deconstruction of solid mass guided artists long after his death. His works are held by many public art museums, and in 1988 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City organized a major retrospective of 100 pieces.

Among his most cited paintings: Study for States of Mind: Those Who Go, Horse + Rider + Apartment house, Sintesi plastica di una figura seduta (Silvia), and Charge of the Lancers. His principal genres were landscape painting, Veduta, and figurative art.

The work sits within the Futurism & Constructivism tradition.