Untitled

Untitled

Lucio Fontana

1958

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This sketch is a loose cluster of quick, wobbly lines on tan paper. Some shapes look like furniture—chairs, tables—drawn in a hurry. Others are blobs with antennae or squiggly marks inside circles. A few faces peek out, half-finished. The lines are thin but messy, like doodles someone scribbled while thinking. The artist signed it in the corner, but the drawing feels more like notes than a finished work. The ballpoint pen makes the lines scratchy and uneven, almost like a child’s sketchbook—but with a grown-up’s odd mix of objects. If you like this style, check out Lucio Fontana.

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