Development of a Bottle in Space

Umberto Boccioni · 1912 (cast 1931)

This is Development of a Bottle in Space, modelled by Umberto Boccioni in nineteen twelve and cast in silvered bronze. Boccioni cuts the bottle open and lets the space around it into the form. The Futurists wanted sculpture to stop being a solid object sitting in a room and start describing the room as well.

Medium Silvered bronze · Dimensions 15 x 23 3/4 x 12 7/8" (38.1 x 60.3 x 32.7 cm) · Credit Aristide Maillol Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 503: Head of a Woman, Man with a Guitar

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Caryatid, Spoon Woman, Tiari, The Horse, Apartment, Endless Column

More by Umberto Boccioni here: Dynamism of a Soccer Player