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| Giacomo Balla Portrait of sculptor Carlo Fontana 1907 oil on canvas Estorick Collection, London |
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| Giacomo Balla La Mano del Violinista 1912 oil on canvas Estorick Collection, London |
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| Giacomo Balla Dinamismo di un Cane al Guinzaglio 1912 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giacomo Balla Orbite Celesti 1913 oil on canvas Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |
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| Giacomo Balla Automobile in Corsa 1913 graphite and crayon on paper Estorick Collection, London |
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| Giacomo Balla Velocità Astratta 1913 oil on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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| Giacomo Balla Velocità Astratta 1913 oil on canvas Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |
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| Giacomo Balla Velocità di una Automobile + Luce 1913 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Giacomo Balla Velocità Astratta + Rumore 1913-14 oil on board in artist's painted frame Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Giacomo Balla Dinamismo d'Auto 1913-14 drawing Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Giacomo Balla Vortex with Radiations 1913-14 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Giacomo Balla La Primavera ca. 1916 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Giacomo Balla Fuochi d'Artificio 1917 stage-set for Ballets-Russes, reconstructed in 1997 by Elio Marchegiani Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |
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| Giacomo Balla Fuochi d'Artificio ca. 1917 lithograph (after stage design for Ballets-Russes) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Giacomo Balla Pleasing Numbers 1919 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Giacomo Balla Continuous Lines ca. 1929 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Giacomo Balla Arte Astratta 1955 screenprint Brooklyn Museum |
from Dreams About Clothes
But now, his baby face unlined and bald,
The old-clothes man comes down the street,
Singing the little song he sings.
His overcoat is all humped up in back
To hide his powerful wings.
Snow melts at the touch of his bare feet.
He passes me unseeing, yet how much
Of mine's already in his sack!
Tell me something, Art.
You know what it's like
Awake in your dry hell
Of volatile synthetic solvents.
Won't you help us brave the elements
Once more, of terror, anger, love?
Seeing there's no end to wear and tear
Upon the lawless heart,
Won't you as well forgive
Whoever settles for the immaterial?
Don't you care how we live?
– James Merrill (1972)