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Giacomo Balla
Pleasing Numbers1919

Not on view
Horizontal painting with large overlapping numerals '2,' '6,' and '3' in gray and pink on a mint green ground, with cobalt blue wave shapes along the bottom and 'FUTUR BALLA' inscribed in the upper right
Artist or Maker
Giacomo Balla
Italy, 1871-1958
Title
Pleasing Numbers
Date Made
1919
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
5 7/8 × 11 7/16 in. (14.92 × 29.05 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.11
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1871-1958); Casa Balla, Rome. Private Collection; [Turske and Turske, Zurich]; Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.