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Maternal love
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Landscape. Study
Rainy day
Spring in Val Sassina
Viaticum
The melancholy of the sun
Pasture
The gray village
Landscape
The abandoned cart
Maternity
Adoration of the Magi
The way to Calvary
Penumbra
Suburb
Morning
Autumn afternoon
Morning
Figure of a Woman (Portrait of Violette)
The nostalgic hour on Mé-Nam
Portrait of Armando Mazza
House under construction
Concierge (Concierge)
Self-portrait
Self-portrait
Vallon to Volpedo
January in Padua
In Fiumelatte from the railway underpass
Vibrant
The blue vase
The candle
The long wait
Medieval motif
Drawings for a fresco. Mary Magdalene at the foot of the cross
The woman of the emigrant
Idyll. The tree of Life
Portrait of Giovanni Cantù
Study of figures for spring idyll
May morning
The bridge
Portrait of peasants (Portrait of Signora Battegazzore)
Portrait of a peasant owner
Will be
The exit of the workers from the Pirelli factory
Night work at Termini Station
Piazza Caricamento in Genoa
Reflections of a hungry. Study
Strike
Ona city street
Tears
Painful reflections
To the Italian economic kitchens
I remember when I was a girl
The search for light. Study for central triptych image
Caryatids
Harvesting hay
The sower
Morning in the workshop
Going to the factory
Solitude
The sun
Hail Mary in transit
Robbery
Believers
Return from the alp
Maize on the farmyard
On the Ligurian coast (Sulla costa ligure)
Curious old women
San Martino d'Albaro
Maternal love
April morning
April sun
Midday in Manarola
The disk of the sun
Summer. Morning
Landscape. Study
Rainy day
Spring in Val Sassina
Viaticum
The melancholy of the sun
Pasture
The gray village
Landscape
The abandoned cart
Maternity
Adoration of the Magi
The way to Calvary
Penumbra
Suburb
Morning
Autumn afternoon
Morning
Figure of a Woman (Portrait of Violette)
The nostalgic hour on Mé-Nam
Portrait of Armando Mazza
House under construction

House under construction

Umberto Boccioni

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Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

Corso Leoniero, 2, Tortona

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The drawing House under construction, dating back to 1910, frames the skeleton of a building silhouetted beyond the fence that divides it from the road facing it, where a horse with its head down drags a cart behind which the hinted figurine of a man walks. The four-storey building with a pitched roof is surrounded by the regular latticework of scaffolding, behind which the black holes of the large windows without frames stand out, showing the unfinished interior. The static nature of the composition, supported by the horizontal line of the fence and by the vertical lines of the frame that rises towards the sky, is animated by the accidental vision of the house, which glimpses towards distant vanishing points and by the use of a clear pointillist trait , energetic and broken, of different intensity. The house under construction declares a remarkable pictorial character that makes the objects participate in the surrounding atmosphere thanks to a sign that is never equal to itself. The execution of the road, made up of curved and irregular lines reinforced with a pen, that of the almost diaphanous horse, as well as that of the man without thickness and hinted at by fleeting lines, make the work particularly significant for the reading of Boccioni's poetics to come.
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Title: House under construction

Author: Umberto Boccioni

Date: 1907 - 1909

Technique: Raised pen-on-paper pencil

Displayed in: Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

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