Study for "The Dream – Paolo and Francesca"

A woman lies across the sheet, her head turned and long hair spilling in tangled strands while one arm rises to grip her head. Rendered in soft graphite and charcoal with smudged tone on tan paper, the study dissolves the figure into flowing lines.

Look closer: A small cursive signature in pencil sits in the lower right corner.

Artist

Umberto Boccioni

Date

1910

Medium

Graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, and wash on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2784 × 1392 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989