Mia madre che lavora [My Mother Working]

1907

Umberto Boccioni

Artist, Italian, 1882 - 1916

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint printed in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 36.2 × 31 cm (14 1/4 × 12 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 67.3 × 48.6 cm (26 1/2 × 19 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.30.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bellini 2006, no. 14, State undescribed state between A and C (printed before 1931)


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist's widow; by descent to Giuseppe Del Pian. (sale, Cambi Casa d'Aste, 13 June 2016, no. 225); (La Portantina di Mattia Jona, Milan); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1972

  • Bellini, Paolo. Catalogo completo dell'opera grafica di Umberto Boccioni. (Milan, 1972): no. 14.

2004

  • Bellini, Paolo. Umberto Boccioni: catalogo ragionato delle incisioni, degli ex-libris, dei manifesti e delle illustrazioni. Milan, 2004: no. 14, undescribed state between A and C (printed before 1931).

Inscriptions

lower center in image: 1907 (in reverse); by later hand(?), lower left in graphite: 5/10/II; by same hand, lower right in graphite: U. Boccioni / mamma che lavora davanti alla / finestr; by Giuseppe Dal Pian, upper right verso in graphite: Questa acquaforte di Umberto Boccioni / "Mamma che lavora davanti alla fine / stra é originale di seconda tiratura / 5/10

Wikidata ID

Q77259179


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