(Turin 1871–1958 Rome)
‘Linea di velocità’, 1914, signed, dated, Balla 1914, titled, signed, dated Linea di velocità astratta Balla 1914 on the reverse, tempera on black paper, 18 x 24 cm, framed, (AR)

We are grateful to Elena Gigli for confirming the authenticity of this work.

Photo certificate:
Galleria Fonte d’Abisso Arte, Milan, 31 May 1991

Provenance:
Casa Balla, Rome, archive no. 39 (label on the reverse)
Barbara Mathes Gallery Inc, New York (label on the reverse)
Galleria Fonte d’Abisso, Milan
Private Collection, Italy (letter from Fagiolo dell’Arco to the owner)
European Private Collection

Ehxibition:
Livorno, Galleria d’arte contemporanea Peccolo, Giacomo Balla, 19 June 1971, exh. cat. no. 6 (label on the reverse)
University of Newcastle, Hatton Gallery, 4 November - 9 December 1972, Edimburgh Royal Scottish Academy, 17 December 1972 – 14 January 1973, exhibition of Italian Futurism, exh. cat. no. 11 (label on the reverse)
Paris, Galerie Arts/ Contacts, Dynamique et creativité du Futurisme, 10 October - 10 November 1973 (label on the reverse)
Cortina D’Ampezzo, Galleria Falsetti, Omaggio a Giacomo Balla, 1974 – 1975, exh. cat., Enrico Crispolti (curator), no. V with ill Milan, Galleria Fonte d’Abisso, Archivi futuristi, 7April - 14 July 1990, exh. cat. p. 24, no. 3 with ill. (label and stamp on the reverse) Frankfurt, Schrin Kunsthalle, Occultismo e Avanguardia da Munch a Mondrian 1900 – 1915, 3 June -27 August 1995, p. 465, no. 373 with ill. (label on the reverse)
Milan, Galleria Fonte D’abisso, Universo meccanico. Il futurismo attorno a Balla, Depero, Prampolini, 27 March - 31 May 2003, exh. cat. p. 23, no. 1 with ill. (label on the reverse),
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Balla. La Modernità futurista, 15 February - 2 June 2008, exh. cat. no. II, 43 with ill.

Literature:
M. Drudi Gambillo, T. Fiori, Archivi del Futurismo, vol. II, De Luca (ed.), Mondadori (ed.), Rome, Milan, 1962, no. 132
G. Lista, Balla. Galleria Fonte d’Abisso Edizioni, Modena 1982, p. 214, no. 363 with ill.

1913, Balla put up for auction all his figurative works, announcing: “Balla is Dead. Here are Sold the Works of the Late Balla”
(cf. Pontus Hulten (ed.), Futurismo e Futurismi, Bompiani 1992)

From an important Private Collection