Giacomo Balla Spring shoots (Landscape of Villa... Lot 540

Giacomo Balla Spring shoots (Landscape of Villa Borghese), 1906 Oil on canvas applied to panel, 50.9x76.3 cm. Signature at lower right and lower left: Balla. On verso: label Collection of / Mrs. Barnett Malbin (The Lydia and / Harry Lewis Winston Collection) / Birmingham, with no. 38: label VIII Quadriennale Nazionale d'Arte di Roma / Palazzo delle Esposizioni / Roma 1959 - 1960 / Retrospective exhibition of / Giacomo Balla, with indication of propietà Sig.e Balla. History: Luce Balla Collection, Rome; Winston Collection, Birmingham; Barnett Malbin Collection, Birmingham; The Collection of Lydia Winston Malbin, Sotheby's, New York, May 16, 1990, lot no. 16; Private Collection Exhibitions: LXXIX Esposizione Internazionale, Rome, Società degli Amatori e Cultori di Belle Arti, February 5-June 30, 1909; VIII Quadriennale Nazionale D'Arte di Roma, Giacomo Balla retrospective exhibition, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1959 - 1960, room 41, cat. no. 1; XXX Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, Venice, 1960, cat. p. 13, no. 4; Futurism: A Modern Focus, The Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston Collection, New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1973 - 1974, cat. p. 46, no. 12, illustrated; Futurism and the International Avant-Garde, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 24, 1980 - January 4, 1981, cat. p. 48, no. 2, illustrated; Giuseppe Pellizza and Giacomo Balla, from Divisionism to Futurism, with texts by Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, Piero Pacini and Rachele Ferrario, card edited by Elena Gigli, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Farsettiarte, August 9-September 3, 2000, then Prato, September 14-24, then Milan, September 27-October 30, cat. no. 7, illustrated in color; Futurballa, life light speed, curated by Ester Coen, Alba, Ferrero Foundation, October 29, 2016 - February 27, 2017, cat. p. 61, no. 21, illustrated in color; Balla a Villa Borghese, curated by Elena Gigli, Rome, Museo Carlo Biliotti - Aranciera di Villa Borghese, November 29, 2018 - February 17, 2019, cat. pp. 74, 127, no. 17, illustrated in color. Bibliography: Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, Balla pre-futurist, Bulzoni Editore, Rome, 1968, pp. 25, 46, no. 85; Teresa Fiori, Archivi del Divisionismo, volume two, introductory essay by Fortunato Bellonzi, Officina Edizioni, Rome, 1969, p. 144, no. X.138, pl. 1792; Susan Barnes Robinson, Giacomo Balla, Divisionism and Futurism, 1871/1912, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1981, p. 148; Guido Ballo, Boccioni, la vita e l'opera, Il Saggiatore, Milan, (I ed. 1964), 1982, pl. 53; Giovanni Lista, Balla, Edizioni Galleria Fonte D'Abisso, Modena, 1982, pp. 151, 501, no. 159.