The Sound of Night

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The Sound of Night
Italian: Il Rumore della Notte
The Sound Of Night (Il Rumore della Notte), bronze sculpture by Mimmo Paladino, 1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.JPG
ArtistMimmo Paladino
Year1986 (1986)
TypeSculpture
MediumBronze
LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
OwnerMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Sound of Night (Italian: Il Rumore della Notte)[1] is an outdoor 1986 bronze sculpture by Italian artist Mimmo Paladino, installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's (MFAH) Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, in the U.S. state of Texas. According to MFAH, the work illustrates the artist's "[revisit to] the disquieting sensibility of Breton and his contemporaries, tapping into both cultural archetypes and the language of dreams "[2] It was donated to the museum by Alice and Timothy Sharma.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "Mimmo Paladino, The Sound of Night (Il Rumore della Notte), 1986". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  2. ^ "Artworks: Surrealism and Biomorphism". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Retrieved October 27, 2015.


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