Seated Male Nude (recto); Seated Woman with a Dark Blouse (verso)

Inscription: Signed (upper right): UB; (lower right): Boccioni; signed (verso, lower right): UB

the artist (until d. 1916); his sister, Amelia Raffaella Boccioni Callegari, Verona (1916–58; sold in 1958 to Winston); Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston, Birmingham, Mich. (1958–his d. 1966); Lydia Winston Malbin, Detroit and New York (1966–d. 1989; her bequest to MMA)

Detroit Institute of Arts. "Boccioni Drawings from the Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston Collection," April 26–May 28, 1967, no catalogue (checklist no. 78).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Boccioni: A Retrospective," September 15, 1988–January 8, 1989, no. 47A and B (lent by Lydia Winston Malbin, New York) [recto and verso exhibited].

Joshua C. Taylor. The Graphic Work of Umberto Boccioni. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York, 1961, unpaginated, no. 97, ill. (recto), dates it about 1909–10.

Linda Shearer and Marianne W. Martin. Futurism: A Modern Focus. The Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston Collection. Dr. and Mrs. Barnett Malbin. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, 1973, p. 214, no. 161, date it about 1909–10.

Guido Ballo. Boccioni, la vita e l'opera. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1964). Milan, 1982, p. 214, appendix no. 161, ill. n.p. (recto), calls the recto "Studio di nudo maschile" and dates it 1909.

Maurizio Calvesi and Ester Coen. Boccioni: L'opera completa. Milan, 1983, p. 330, no. 518, ill. (verso); p. 331, no. 521, ill. (recto), calls it "Studio di nudo maschile" (recto) and "Studio di donna seduta con camiciotto scuro" (verso).

Maria Drudi Gambillo and Teresa Fiori, ed. Archivi del futurismo. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1958 and 1962). Rome, 1986, vol. 2, p. 261, no. 163, ill. p. 203 (recto), calls it "Nudo" (recto) and "Figura di donna" (verso).

Ester Coen. Umberto Boccioni. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1988, pp. 88–89, no. 47A and B, ill. (recto and verso).

Alberto Dambruoso in Maurizio Calvesi and Alberto Dambruoso. Umberto Boccioni: Catalogo Generale delle Opere. Turin, 2016, p. 533, no. 1072, ill. (verso); p. 536, no. 1089, ill. (recto), calls the recto "Studio di nudo maschile" and dates it 1908–10; calls the verso "Studio di donna seduta con camiciotto scuro" and dates it 1908–9.

Rosalind McKever. "A Continuous Line in Boccioni Drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York." Burlington Magazine 162 (March 2020), pp. 219–22, figs. 10 (color; verso), 11 (color; recto), calls the verso "Seated Woman" and dates both about 1908–9.