(Turin 1871–1958 Rome)
Autunno; Motivo autunnale, c. 1920, signed; on the reverse “Pugno di Boccioni” stamps, oil on cardboard, diameter 26 cm, framed

This work is registered in the Archivio Gigli, Rome under no. 2008-352 and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity.

This work is also accompanied by a photo certificate issued by Luce Balla.

Provenance:
Casa Balla, Rome
Marcucci Collection, Rome (1960s)
Galleria d’Arte Cinquantasei, Bologna
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Padua, Omaggio a Giacomo Balla, Galleria Civica, January–February 1983, exh. cat. p. 89, no. 68 with ill.

Immediately following the tragedy of the Great War, Balla observed the changing seasons and studied the colours of both the sea (in Viareggio in September 1919) and the trees of Villa Borghese. In this roundel we find autumnal colours – orange, ochre – chasing each other against the blue sky and green meadows. The colourful leaves of the Roman Indian summers chase each other in the purple-blue sky and on the green of the meadows. We find the same chromatic richness in 1918, in Balla’s triptych of the Seasons where, enclosed within bizarre frames, he depicts the three seasons (winter is excluded) most dear to him: the light green of spring, the yellow of summer, and the orange of autumn.
Elena Gigli