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Head Against the Light (The Artist's Sister) by Umberto Boccioni — VisualArtsDB

Head Against the Light (The Artist's Sister)

Head Against the Light (The Artist's Sister)

Umberto Boccioni

1912

Medium: Pen and brown ink with traces of copy pencil on paper
Dimensions: 4 15/16 in. × 4 in. (12.6 × 10.2 cm)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Styles

Modern and Contemporary Art

Tags

women

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