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Sketches of Four Heads and a Child

Umberto Boccioni, 1907

29 cm × 20 cm

About the size of a sheet of A4. You would need 6 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 20 cm
Width: 29 cm
Medium: Etching on ivory wove paper
Kind: Print
Made in: Italy
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it: Plate: 17.9 × 28.8 cm (7 1/16 × 11 3/8 in.)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 29 cm × 18 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
Credit: Stanley Field Fund

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 29 cm × 20 cm. About the size of a sheet of A4. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1907. It is in the public domain, and The Art Institute of Chicago publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Art Institute of Chicago: Stanley Field Fund.
How was it made?: Etching on ivory wove paper, made in Italy.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Art Institute of Chicago. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.