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Wednesday 3 December 2025, 06:00 PM • Milan

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Giacomo Balla

(Torino 1871 - Roma 1958)

Matrice per il vestito Bianco-Rosso-Verde del parolibero futurista Marinetti (Mattino), 1914

Artist's Resale Right

Estimate

€ 8.000 - 12.000

Sold

€ 10.230

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

metal and wood
cm 25.8 x 10 x 10 (overall size), cm 21.2 x 10 x 0.3 (the metal matrix)
Matrix for the White-Red-Green Dress by the Futurist free-wordist Marinetti (Mattino), published on the second page of the Futurist Manifesto: Il Vestito Antineutrale, Milan, 11 September 1914.
The flyer printed by the Stabilimento Tipografico Taveggia, Via Ospedale, 3, Milan, for the Direzione del Movimento Futurista: Corso Venezia, 61, Milan, signed by Giacomo Balla painter, is illustrated with the clothes designed for the futurists Cangiullo, Marinetti, Carrà, Boccioni and Russolo and with the possible Modificanti, guerreschi e festosi conceived and designed by Balla.

Thanks to Elena Gigli for her kind assistance in cataloguing the artwork.

Artwork declared to be of exceptional historical and artistic interest and subject to notification by the Ministry of Culture.

Provenance

Acquired directly from Casa Balla for the actual private collection, Rome

Exhibition

Monteleone Sabino, Archaeology - History - Art , September - October 1995, cat. ill. col.

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