The Laugh

1911 · Painting

Peut-on la contempler ?

Elle ne reçoit pas en ce moment

Museum of Modern Art

New York, États-Unis

Elle appartient à la collection, mais n’est pas présentée en ce moment.

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À propos du tableau

The Laugh (Italian: La risata), sometimes translated into English as Laughter, is a futurist painting by Umberto Boccioni. It is Boccioni's first truly futurist work, as he desired to break away from divisionist work.

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Numéro d’inventaire: 656.1959

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Peintures Huile Peinture italienne Modernisme XXe siècle

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Pendant ce temps, chez Umberto Boccioni

La vie entière

early 1910
Meets Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
In early 1910 Boccioni met Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who had published his Manifesto of Futurism the year before.
11 February 1910
Signs the “Manifesto of Futurist Painters”
On 11 February 1910 Boccioni signed the Manifesto of Futurist Painters together with Giacomo Balla, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo and Gino Severini.
May 1911
“The City Rises” on show in Milan
In May 1911 “The City Rises” went on show in Milan: a huge canvas, 2 by 3 metres, on which Boccioni had worked for nearly a year, attempting, as he wrote to a friend, “a great synthesis of labor, light and movement”. It attracted numerous reviews, mostly admiring.
1912
Decides to take up sculpture
After visiting the Paris studios of Georges Braque, Alexander Archipenko, Constantin Brâncuși, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and, probably, Medardo Rosso, Boccioni decided to take up sculpture.
1912
Futurist exhibition at the Sackville Gallery
In 1912 the Futurists, Boccioni among them, exhibited their work at the Sackville Gallery in London.
1912
Futurist exhibition at Galerie Bernheim-Jeune
In 1912 Boccioni exhibited some paintings together with other Italian Futurists at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune.