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This pen drawing plans Fusion of a Head and a Window, probably Boccioni’s first sculpture, made in August and September 1912. The sculpture joined a plaster head to a real window and its pane of glass, a knot of real hair and a glass eye. It was shown in Paris in 1913 and is now destroyed. Boccioni drew the study on a sheet printed with the name of the Ristorante Savini in Milan.
Pen and brown ink on printed paper · 5 11/16 × 4 3/8 in. (14.4 × 11.1 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Futurism
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- Museum title
- Study for "Fusion of a Head and a Window"
- Artist
- Umberto Boccioni (Italian, Reggio 1882–1916 Sorte)
- Date
- 1912
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on printed paper
- Dimensions
- 5 11/16 × 4 3/8 in. (14.4 × 11.1 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.