The Athlete
Umberto Boccioni
1907
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
Plate: 15 × 23 5/16 in. (38.1 × 59.2 cm) Sheet: 41 × 50 in. (104.1 × 127 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Ellen Peckham Gift, 2017
Accession Number
2017.67
Tags
MenAthletes
About the Artist
Umberto Boccioni · 1882–1916
Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) was an Italian painter and sculptor who became the leading artist and principal theorist of the Futurist movement. Born in Reggio Calabria, he studied in Rome under the Divisionist painter Giacomo Balla and was deeply influenced by Post-Impressionism before encountering the ideas of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, whose 1909 Futurist Manifesto catalyzed Boccioni's artistic ...