''The Sound of Night'' ( it, Il Rumore della Notte) is an outdoor 1986

bronze sculpture Bronze is the most popular metal for Casting (metalworking), cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply "a bronze". It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs, and small statuettes and figurines, as w ...

by Italian artist

Mimmo Paladino Mimmo Paladino (born Paduli, 18 December 1948) is an Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker. He is a leading name in the Transvanguardia artistic movement and one of the many European artists to revive Expressionism in the 1980s. Biography ...

, installed at the

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's (MFAH)

Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden is a sculpture garden located at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) in Houston, Texas, United States. Designed by artist and landscape architect Isamu Noguchi, the garden consists of 25 works o ...

, in the

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. According to MFAH, the work illustrates the artist's " evisit tothe disquieting sensibility of Breton and his contemporaries, tapping into both cultural archetypes and the language of dreams " It was donated to the museum by Alice and Timothy Sharma.

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