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Umberto Boccioni · 1913

Dynamism of a Soccer Player

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A footballer dissolved into overlapping transparent and opaque facets of ochre, russet, blue and green, the calf at the centre with fragments of other limbs radiating outwards like rays of light. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Up to 12.5 × 12 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

12.5″12″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of Dynamism of a Soccer Player

Painted in 1913 and now in the Museum of Modern Art. It illustrates a principle from Boccioni's Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting, that to paint a figure you must render its surrounding atmosphere, because movement and light destroy the materiality of bodies.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Umberto Boccioni

Umberto Boccioni 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.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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