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Print, Tipografia, Studio di Costume from "Progetti Scenici per 'Sintesi Futuriste'" Portfolio, Typographic Costume Study

This is a Print. It was designed by Giacomo Balla and published by Edizioni Franca Mancini. It is dated ca. 1980 and we acquired it in 1999. Its medium is lithograph on heavy white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Tamar Cohen. It is credited Gift of Tamar Cohen.

Its dimensions are

Platemark: 32.2 × 22 cm (12 11/16 × 8 11/16 in.) Sheet: 69 × 49.4 cm (27 3/16 × 19 7/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Publisher's monogram embossed, lower left: FM [Franca Mancini]

It is signed

Printed in gray, below image, lower right: BALLA / FUTURISTA

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, beneath image, lower left: 45 / 150

Cite this object as

Print, Tipografia, Studio di Costume from "Progetti Scenici per 'Sintesi Futuriste'" Portfolio, Typographic Costume Study; Designed by Giacomo Balla (Italian, 1871–1958); Published by Edizioni Franca Mancini (Italy); lithograph on heavy white wove paper; Platemark: 32.2 × 22 cm (12 11/16 × 8 11/16 in.) Sheet: 69 × 49.4 cm (27 3/16 × 19 7/16 in.); Gift of Tamar Cohen; 1999-6-5-20

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