Dynamism of a Soccer Player, 1913

The Futurists paint a footballer as pure movement, a calf at the centre of the storm.

Work: oil painting
Maker: Umberto Boccioni
Date: 1913
Era: The Edwardian game · 1901–1918
Source: Museum of Modern Art, New York · via Wikimedia Commons

A footballer, painted as the force he makes.

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.

Size

$29.00

The story

Umberto Boccioni painted this in 1913, three years before his death, as a Futurist answer to the question of how to paint speed. There is no pitch here and no ball you can point to. The footballer is taken apart into the forces of his own movement: his calf sits near the centre of the canvas and fragments of the rest of his body turn around it. The painting is held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Every other picture in this house shows a game from the touchline; this one tries to show what a game feels like from inside the player.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

Dynamism of a Soccer Player, 1913, printed large and framed — in the den, the club bar, the supporters’ bar. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

Dynamism of a Soccer Player, 1913 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of oil painting — Umberto Boccioni, 1913 — from the copy held by Museum of Modern Art, New York · via Wikimedia Commons. The source. The work was published before 1931 and is public-domain verified.
Printed faithful to that source scan — restore honestly, disclose always. We do not re-colour it, complete it, or interpret it; the piece you receive is the image as it survives, halftone grain honored as history, not damage.
Printed to order on museum-grade cotton-rag stock with pigment inks — the pairing is rated 100+ years.
Colour-managed to the source; the tone of the paper and the ink is the period’s, not ours.
Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed editions ship flat-packed).
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

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