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Find the round black hat just right of the middle, then look at how short dabs of pink, green, yellow and blue cover the workers and the street alike.
Boccioni painted these road workers in 1914, the year his book on Futurist painting and sculpture came out. We look down on them from above as they bend over their stones. The Met also holds two of his studies for this square canvas, one of two workmen and one of a man laying paving stones.
Oil on canvas · 39 3/8 × 39 3/8 in. (100 × 100 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Futurism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- The Street Pavers
- Artist
- Umberto Boccioni (Italian, Reggio 1882–1916 Sorte)
- Date
- 1914
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 39 3/8 × 39 3/8 in. (100 × 100 cm)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.