Giacomo Balla

Casa Balla, Rome
Galleria Poleschi Arte, Lucca
A.Zodo, Milan
Private collection, Milan
Galleria Arte Centro, Milan

E. Gigli, Giacomo Balla. Coloratissimo e luminosissimo, Edizioni Cinquantasei, Bologna, 2013, pp.150-51
Arte moderna e contemporanea. Antologia scelta 2014, Firenze, 2013, pp. 32-33 (illustrated)

Milan, Arte Centro, Futuriosmo e Aeropittura. Velocità e dinamismo dal Trentino alla Sicilia, 2009, p. 24, no. 40 (titled Motivo decorativo, dated 1924, illustrated)
Beijing, National Art Museum of China, A+B+C/F = Futurismo, 2010; Guangdong, Museum of Art, Canton, 2010-11, p. 82
Bologna, Galleria d’Arte Cinquantasei, Giacomo Balla. Coloratissimo e luminosissimo, 2013
Spazio Oberdan, Nuovo Futurismo, 2012, p. 24

This work is recorded in the Archivio Gigli, dated 26 May 2007 (no. 301) and is also accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Enrico Crispolti, dated 2 June 1996.

Giacomo Balla, a master of the Divisionist technique inspired by Seurat and Signac's Pointillism, used expressive dashes of colour to capture the effects of light and movement. He was the first of the Italian Futurists, whom he joined in 1910, to create an entirely abstract composition.