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Let your eye run along the slanting black strokes, then look for the faces caught between them and the Roman numerals I and III written on the sheet.
In 1911 Boccioni painted States of Mind, three pictures of a departure from a railway station: The Farewells, Those Who Go and Those Who Stay. After he saw Cubism in Paris late that year, he reworked the set in a second version. In this brush and ink drawing of Those Who Go, which the Met dates to 1912, heads and buildings are caught in slanting black strokes.
Brush and black ink over graphite on paper · 12 1/2 in. × 17 in. (31.8 × 43.2 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Futurism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- States of Mind: Those Who Go
- Artist
- Umberto Boccioni (Italian, Reggio 1882–1916 Sorte)
- Date
- 1912
- Medium
- Brush and black ink over graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 12 1/2 in. × 17 in. (31.8 × 43.2 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.