This collection, mainly of works on paper, comes from a larger group of several hundred bought by Eric Estorick directly from the artist in 1947. As Sironi had destroyed most of his early work, Estorick was able to buy only a little that can be described as Futurist or Metaphysical, demonstrating his direct links with Balla, Boccioni, Carra and de Chirico; the earliest work of which there was any great quantity in the studio were the drawings of eerie street scenes and deserted factories made during the latter half of the Great War and immediately after it.